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The Bundesbank's Jens Weidmann defends the 500-Euro note (WSJ-Moneybeat). He argues that it bolsters the integrity of the Euro, but Germany benefits from the big notes too. Europe's Banknote Furor (Bloomberg).
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Now that they face negative interest rates, more Japanese are keeping their cash at home, with predictable results--thefts, swindles (Japan Times). "Once in a while you'll read a news story about a refuse collector finding a huge box of cash at the home of a recently deceased person."
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"On the $100 bill" (This is Asok, via Marginal Revolution). Are large denomination notes such a bad thing?
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"Switch to a $1 Coin" (The New York Times).
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"A World Without Cash" (Stratfor).
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Born on a 29th of February, she owns a Scottish banknote dated February 29, 1988 (Arizona Daily Star). Married 46 years, Linda Myers turns 17 this year.
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Confederate Currency (Atlas Obscura).
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Alan Turing on a banknote? (Wisconsin Gazette).
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"Yukon's First Lady" on a banknote? (York Region).
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Belarus to 'supersize' its currency (Bloomberg). Criminals likely wouldn't want it in any case.
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A Romanian stamp illustrating the smallest banknote in the world (Linns Stamp News).
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Collecting stocks and bonds (My Central Jersey).
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Still "loony over toonies" (Winnipeg Free Press).
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Discontent with Gambian polymer notes (Freedom Newspaper).
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Central Banking Awards 2016 (Central Banking.com).
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U.S. banknote production in January (Coin News).
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Activists protest the depiction of aboriginals in Taiwan by throwing paper money (Taipei Times).
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Our currency battle (SNJ Today). About portraits on U.S. money.
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Hillary Clinton was once depicted on some movie money (Belleville News-Democrat). A 2002 Eddie Murphy vehicle, The Adventures of Pluto Nash, apparently very bad.
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"La TINDA", a local money in Béarn (La République des Pyrénées, in French).
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"Colombian Artist Teaches Us that Money Talks" (BRIC+ New World News).
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Los Angeles artist creates "completely worthless" Trump currency (LA Weekly). From September of last year, but I don't remember seeing this before. Of course eBay is always full of novelty paper money like this (eBay). Offhand, the only other of the current crop of candidates I can find on novelty money are Trump, Clinton, and Sanders.
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The War on Cash, Part III (People's Pundit Daily).
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CONFERENCE: Payments Innovation 2016, Sydney Australia (Payments-Australia.com).
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REPORT: Community Currencies: Challenges and Opportunities for Local Government (Community Currencies in Action, available in pdf).
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BOOK: Mervyn King, The End of Alchemy (The Telegraph).
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