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I’m sure you’re familiar with the most common slang term that’s used for American dollars.
Yep, that’s right. It’s “bucks”.
As in “I sure could use an extra 20 bucks right now!“.
Have you ever wondered how using the term “bucks” to describe money came about?
Here’s an interesting (and fun) hypothetical for you to consider…
You apply for a very dangerous and difficult job that pays an enormous amount of money for the relatively short time you’ll have to spend working on it.
The job will take 30 days to complete and you’ll receive your pay in cash when the job is finished at the end of day 30.
The person hiring you says you can choose one of two ways to get paid: [Read more…]
It seems like there’s always another bill to pay or something breaking down and needing to be repaired or replaced.
And of course there are all those very tempting “impulse purchase” items screaming out to us every time we’re standing in a checkout line!
It’s a simple fact of life: Any time we have money in our pocket, it’s likely to get spent.
Well I’m going to tell you about a simple way to save a portion of every paycheck without ever really missing that money…
Did you know the U.S. used to have $1,000 bills in circulation?
Truth be told, we’ve even used larger bills than that in the past…
There was actually a time when the Federal Reserve issued $500, $5,000, $10,000 and even $100,000 bills (although the $100,000 bill was never used by the general population).
But that all changed in 1969 when the Federal government discontinued the use of all bills larger than a $100.