The venerable penny is still legal money but will become scarce in practice. Looks like merchants will round down cash prices to the nearest .X0 or .X5. US Mint in Philadelphia presses final pennies as the 1-cent coin gets canceled. https://apnews.com/article/us-mint-treasury-department-penny-end-production-86139df5644ef0885a9baf98e9677380

I loved it and recommend it highly despite the ending, despite an ambiguous ending that is atypical of American films. What do you think happened afterwards? What should have happened? #spoiler I think the President should wait retaliate. There were insufficient reasons compelling an immediate response to an unknown actor. The cost of getting it wrong is much too high.

Listening to The Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, perhaps most interesting is how oft heard was the lament “this is the end of western civilization.” #history #depression #perspective