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
Barclays
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
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
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