Questions tagged [currency]
object with a widely-recognized value accepted as payment for goods and services.
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Is 1971 minimum wage "in silver quarters" far, far higher than the current minimum wage?
There is a widely circulated claim that 1971 minimum U.S. wage -- when paid in silver quarters -- would significantly exceed the current nominally higher minimum wage.
In 1971, the Federal minimum ...
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Can a Cuban taxi driver make a doctor's monthly salary in just one hour?
A recent video by the Guardian, 'It's not fair': why Havana's taxi drviers vastly out-earn doctors looks at the difference between public sector workers and the privately employed in Cuba. The video ...
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Does normal paper currency contain enough narcotics residue to attract a drug-sniffing dog?
It seems pretty well established that paper currency (e.g. in the US) is commonly contaminated with trace amounts of cocaine or other illegal narcotics. (See Snopes for instance, though I'm happy to ...
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Does Germany use the Euro to exploit the US and the EU? [closed]
Trump's advisor Peter Navarro claims that Germany exploits the US and the EU by maintaining the Euro at an all time low.
The Guardian for example says:
Germany “continues to exploit other ...
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Did switching to a common currency cause prices to go up in European countries?
Many consumers in the European Union are afraid of switching to Euros since it (reportedly) means increased prices on most products. For example:
In order to address consumers' concerns about price ...
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Does a customer have the legal right to receive change in whatever denomination they want if the cashier can cover it?
I am a cashier at a gas station in California and I recently had a customer put me in this situation. They prepaid for $50 in gas with a fifty dollar bill and filled their car. They had $19 in ...
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Is it illegal to refuse US currency for a purchase?
I hear this claim every now and then. That US currency is legal tender and that it is illegal to not accept it.
The most recent example of this was on an old episode of 30 Rock: The head and the hair....
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Has anyone been charged with defacing money?
In many countries it is illegal to deface or destroy money, but has this law ever been enforced? (note: I'm not asking about counterfeiting)
Have there been any notable cases of people being charged ...
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