{"id":85070,"date":"2013-01-05T21:16:25","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T03:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=85070"},"modified":"2026-08-07T03:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T08:52:07","slug":"are-1-coins-a-better-option-than-1-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=85070","title":{"rendered":"Are $1 Coins A Better Option Than $1 Bills?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/financial-edge\/0112\/are-1-coins-a-better-option-than-1-bills.aspx?partner=vcb&amp;utm_campaign=inv-tbl-forexa-feed-111212&amp;utm_source=tbl&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_content=adg-na_adv-na_mtp-na_adc-con_adf-mix_ptp-cp_geo-us#axzz2HA4JMvJx\" target=\"_blank\">Read it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0Kolbe points to a survey by the Tarrance Group and Hart Research that concluded that U.S. adults favor a switch to a dollar coin by a two-to-one margin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Uh-huh. And yet&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, right now the U.S. Treasury has about $1.4 billion in unused and unwanted $1 coins. That&#8217;s so much inventory the federal government recently announced that it wound end its program of producing presidential $1 coins &#8211; or at least suspend it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8216;Unwanted&#8217; by whom? The American public, obviously; they&#8217;re the ones refusing to use them. Which casts some doubt on the claim that two-thirds favor a switch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. \u00a0Kolbe points to a survey by the Tarrance Group and Hart Research that concluded that U.S. adults favor a switch to a dollar coin by a two-to-one margin. Uh-huh. And yet&#8230; According to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, right now the U.S. Treasury has about $1.4 billion in unused and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-think-about-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85070"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409362,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85070\/revisions\/409362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}