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The End of Money

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by David Wolman


  11 Ignacio Mas, personal interview.

  12 http://dailycaller.com/2010/04/10/kenya-owes-monetary-advances-to-imf-world-bank/; and http://allafrica.com/stories/201010240045.html.

  13 http://technology.cgap.org/technologyblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/fsd_june2009_caroline_pulver.pdf (p. 27).

  14 “South Korea Ready to Hang up Cash,” BBC News, February 13, 2009.

  15 “Mercy Corps Mobile Wallet Innovation Brings Purchasing Power to Haitians’ Cell Phones,” (Portland) Oregonian, December 27, 2010.

  16 “Sweden Weighs Benefits of Ditching Cash,” BBC News, July 17, 2010; also “Central Bank Wants Cashless Society,” nationmultimedia.com, October 27, 2009.

  17 Hitachi group, personal interview, June 2010.

  18 https://www.paypal-media.com/documentdisplay.cfm?DocumentID=2260.

  19 Peter E. Kunkel, “How Jesse James, the Telegraph, and the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 Can Help the Army Win the War on Terrorism: The Unrealized Strategic Effects of a Cashless Battlefield,” Military Review, November–December 2008, pp. 88–96.

  20 Glenn Guest, Steps Toward the Mark of the Beast (Belleville, Ontario: Essence Publishing, 2007), p. 82.

  21 “New Underground Economy,” Washington Times, December 9, 2009.

  22 http://www.federalreserve.gov/generalinfo/faq/faqcur.htm#13.

  23 NPR’s “Planet Money” podcast, posted July 12, 2011, http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/07/12/137795648/the-tuesday-podcast-bitcoin?sc=tw&cc=share.

  24 http://www.npr.org/2011/01/04/132657646/Smart-Phone-Banking-On-The-Rise-But-Is-It-Safe.

  25 Farhad Manjoo on Marketplace (NPR), regarding Facebook and privacy: “They’re concerned with it. In surveys and other things people say they’re concerned about privacy online, but they’re not really doing anything about it. They’re not really acting out on those fears.”

  26 http://technology.cgap.org/technologyblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/fsd_june2009_caroline_pulver.pdf (p. 27).

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  INDEX

  Acid rain

  Adams, John Quincy

  Adobe Photoshop

  Afghanistan

  Africa

  Airlines. See also Cash: cash transactions on planes

  Airtel and Aircel

  Amazon.com

  American Council of the Blind

  American Red Cross

  Anonymity

  Apps

  Argentina

  Ariely, Dan

  ATMs

  cash deposits into

  Australia

  Azerbaijan

  Bahrain

  Bancor currency

  Bangladesh

  Bank of England

  Bank Museum

  Bankruptcy

  Banks

  bailouts

  bank robberies

  central banks (see also individual central banks)

  confidence in

  cost of bank transactions

  failures

  Free Banking Era

  international banks

  investment bankers

  issuances of notes by

  mobile banking

  origin of modern banking

  participation in banking (see also Cellphones: used for money transactions)

  on strike in Ireland

  and toxic assets

  Barclaysr />
  Barcodes

  Bartering. See Swapping

  BBC

  Bear Stearns

  Behavioral economics

  Belgium

  BEP. See United States: Bureau of Engraving and Printing

  BerkShare currency

  Bernanke, Ben

  Bhat currency

  BHP Billiton

  Biases

  Bible

  Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

  Bill of Rights

  Bills of credit

  Biometric devices

  Birch, Dave

  Bitcoin

  Black market

  Blind/visually impaired Americans

  Bling. See also Jewelry

  Bloomberg News

  Boca Raton, Florida

  Boggs, J.S.G.

  Borges, Jorge Luis

  Brazil

  Bribery

  Brinks

  Britain

  De La Rue printing firm in

  Digital Money Forum in

  London transit system

  Royal Mint

  Serious Fraud Office

  See also Bank of England

  Brixton Pound currency

  Budapest

  Buffett, Warren

  Bulgaria

  Bush, George W.

  California

  Cambodia

  Canada

  Capitalism

  Carbon footprint

  Cash

  anonymity of

  carried by average American consumer

  cash deposits into ATMs

  cashless battlefield

  cashless societies

  cash transactions on planes

  and cheating

  costs concerning

  and crime (see also Counterfeiting; Robberies)

  and cultures

  doing without

  and emergencies

  emotional forces concerning (see also Biases)

  end of (see also Cash: war on cash: Mark of the Beast)

  and envelope method

  evolution of

  fungibility of

  inconvertibility of

  and poverty

  for small-value transactions

  as stealth tax

  and tax evasion

  transporting

  war on cash(see also Cash: end of)

  See also Coins: Paper money

  Casinos

  Catcher in the Rye

  Cellphones

  adoption rates

  bought by poor people (n)

  selling airtime minutes for

  used for money transactions

  See also Smartphones

  Centers for Disease Control

  Certificates of deposit

  Chaloner, William

  Chandan, Ravi

  Chant, John

  Chase, Salmon P.

  Cheating

  Checks

  abolished in UK

  check-cashing businesses

  Chen, Mei Ling

  China

  Bank of China

  Yuan Dynasty

  CIA (n)

  Citigroup

  Civil liberties

  Civil War (U.S.)

  Clay Mathematics Institute

  Cocaine

  Coins

  Coin and Currency Show (Clackamas, Oregon)

  coin collections

  coin press

  commemorative

  counterfeit

  custom minters

  exchanging for banknotes

  Hawaiian Dala

  invention of

  manufacturing costs

  melt value of

  minting

  $1 dollar presidential series

  out of circulation

  QQ coin

  silver $1 American Eagle

  state quarters

  See also Liberty Dollar; Pennies

  Coin Speaks, The (Kipling)

  Coinstar

  Collectibles

  Colombia

  Colonial-era America

  Commerce (Manhattan restaurant)

  Computer networks

  Computer security

  Confederated States of America

  Conspiracy theorists

  Constitution (U.S.)

  Continental Congress

  Copper

  Corruption

  Cotton

  Counterfeiters, The (film)

  Counterfeiting

  costs of

  estimated amounts of

  guilty pleas concerning

  on inkjet printers

  at state level

  turning in fakes

  See also Paper money: security measures for; Supernotes

  Crane Paper of Dalton, Massachusetts

  Credit. See also Loans

  Credit cards

  costs for merchants

  credit card companies

  credit card effect

  credit card readers

  and debt

  destroying

  paying monthly balance

  rewards cards

  risk/benefits concerning

  See also Plasectomy

  Crime. See also Counterfeiting; Robberies; under Cash

  Currencies

  alternative

  confidence in

  converting

  democratization of

  devalued

  energy as

  failed

  global

  manipulation of

  national/fiat

  online currency exchanges

  optimal currency areas

  regional

  revaluation of

  stability of

  virtual

  See also Liberty Dollar; Money; Paper money; individual currencies

  Currency News

  Czech Republic

  Dai Nippon printing firm

  Dan, Michael T.

  Da Vinci, Leonardo

  De Beers

  Debit cards

  Debt

  debt crises(see also Financial crisis of 2007–2008)

  Debtors Anonymous

  Deflation

  De La Rue printing firm (Britain)

  Denmark

  Denomination effect

  Deutsche Marks

  Developing countries

  Diamonds

  Digital money. See also Electronic money

  Digital Money Forum. See under Britain

  Dishonesty

  Disney Dollars

  Dobra currency

  Dollar currency

  adoption of

  confidence in

  in circulation

  deflating dollar

  Dollar ReDe$ign Project

  legacy features of

  redesigned

  value in circulation

  Dong currency

  Drugs

  Durasafe

  Dutch Antilles

  Dylan, Bob

  Earhart, Amelia

  East Timor

  Economist, The

  Economists

  Ecuador

  E-gold and E-dinar

  Eichengreen, Barry

  Eko India Financial Services

  Electronic money

  traceability of

  See also Digital money

  Elgar, Sir Edward

  El Salvador

  End of the world

  Energy. See under Currencies

  Enron

  Esperanto

  Esquire magazine

  Estonia

  Ethical issues

  EURion constellation

  Euro currency. See also Euro zone

  European Central Bank

  Europol Money Forgery Unit

  Euro zone. See also Euro currency

  Exchange rates

  Exchange systems

  Expense accounts

  Facebook

  Farmers

  FBI

  Federal deposit insurance


  Federal Reserve

  Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

  Ferguson, Niall

  Financial crisis of 2007-2008 See also Debt: debt crises

  Finland

  Fisher, Irving

  Flu virus

  Foreign Affairs

  Fort Knox

  401K plans

  France

  Oberthur Fiduciaire printing firm in

  Franklin, Benjamin

  Franklin Mint

  Freud, Sigmund

  Friedman, Milton

  Friedman, Thomas

  Fungibility

  Fureai kippu currency

  Ganz, David

  Gates, Bill. See also Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

  Gawker

  Geithner, Timothy

  Georgia Guidestones

  Germany

  Giesecke & Devrient printing firm in

  Gift cards

  Globalization. See also Currencies: global

  Gmail

  Gold

  amount mined

  amount owned by central banks

  gold/silver bugs

  goldsmiths

  gold standard

  price of

  problems with

  virtual

  GoldMoney

  Google

  Google Wallet

  Graft

  Granite deposits

  Grant, Ulysses

  Great Depression

  Greece

  Gregory, Bud

  Greider, William

  Gross national product

  Guest, Glenn

  Guilder currency

  Hackers

  Hahl, Robert

  Haiti

  Hawaii

  Hawaiian Dala. See under Coins

  Healthcare

  Helvitis Fökking Fökk!

  Hennessey, Rick

  Herbert, Frank

  History Channel

  Hitachi

  Hoarding. See under Money

  Holograms

  Holt, Anton and Gillian

  Honduras

  Hub Culture

  Huntin’ Plastic with Everett Sonstegaard (YouTube)

  Hussein, Saddam

  Iceland

  Central Bank of Iceland

  stock market in

  Idaho

  Identity theft

  IMF. See International Monetary Fund

  India

  cellphone adoption rates in

  consumerism in

  See also Sinha, Abhishek; State Bank of India

  Indonesia

  Inflation/hyperinflation

  Ingves, Stefan

  Interest rates

  International Monetary Fund

  Internet

  I.O.U.s

  Iran

  Iraq

  Ireland

  IRS. See also Taxation

  Islam

  Isleifsson, Olafur

  Italy

  Ithaca HOUR currency

 

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