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The U.S. mint ceased production of the penny on 12 Nov 2025 to save taxpayers $56 million since it currently costs 3.7 cents make a cent piece. This is disingenuous and obscures the real issue. The real issue isn’t that penny costing more than a cent to make, it’s the century-long erosion of the currency… Read more: Last Penny

World governments, central bankers, and the general populace have all been consumed by this lie that money is wealth. You can’t create wealth by creating money. You can’t create prosperity by printing it, giving it away, redistributing it, or abolishing it. So, if money is not wealth, what is? If printing money would end poverty,… Read more: Wealth is not the same as money

There is a lot of uncertainty in the world these days. However, I am confident money and its role in the world has not changed since its invention. Furthermore, most people don’t understand what money really is and what it represents. Civilized man has been using money to exchange goods and services for a very… Read more: What is money?