Does It Make “Cents” To Trust Our Money?

Listen in, if you use coins, collect coins, or need a little change in your routine. Every year, the U.S. Mint produces and distributes billions of coins across the United States. But, making and circulating money is just one part of a complex cycle that we all trust, when it comes to our economy. The U.S. Mint relies on, and puts trust in, myriad other technologies to support the ecosystem of coins: from secure supply chains to monetary policy, data exchanges, banks, aggregators, and retailers. In this episode, we mix in a little James Bond lore, Fort Knox history, as well as numismatics, and the business of making money.

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Do you inherently trust technology? Today, most of us rely on technology to communicate, drive, shop, bank, and work. From a bigger perspective, we have all learned to trust technology to provide our power, food, fuel, national defense, and the global economy. In this podcast, we try to unpack a different technology each episode – with insights from experts -- to gain a better perspective on the tech we trust, how it works, and why it matters.