A joint inquiry by NPR's Planet Money and Investigations teams found that more than $1 billion of unused dollar coins are the wasteful byproducts of another failed congressional effort to replace ...

A bill has been introduced in Congress to kill the troubled dollar coin program. Unwanted dollar coins are piling up in Federal Reserve vaults around the country, costing taxpayers hundreds of ...

Government storage of over $1 billion in dollar coins nobody wants hardly seems like a budget saving tool. The current legislative effort, however, demonstrates one of the oldest axioms in politics.

At least, if everyone was taking the law seriously, some recently issued US dollar coins would be illegal to own or use inside the United States. This is a slightly complex story but one I find ...

On Saturday's Up w/ Chris Hayes, we'll discuss a novel proposal of a trillion-dollar coin. Plus: We'll the contested legacy of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. A discussion with four fiction ...

On Saturday's Up w/ Chris Hayes, we'll discuss the origins and merits of a novel proposal making its a way around the Beltway: the trillion-dollar coin.

Venture capitalist Tim Draper forecasts a decline in the US dollar's value. He anticipates a shift towards Bitcoin as retailers begin to favor it. Draper, a long-time Bitcoin advocate, highlights ...