Sunday, June 26, 2011
How To Waste $600 Million
From NPR:
On today's Planet Money, we visit an underground vault that's full of money nobody wants.
The money â?? bags and bags of dollar coins â?? is the result of a 2005 law that requires the U.S. Mint to print a series of coins bearing the likeness of each U.S. president.
The problem is, people don't really like dollar coins. And there aren't enough people who are fired up about, say, Rutherford B. Hayes, to make much of a difference.
