Learned, lively and often irreverent, David McWilliams’s “The History of Money” is rich with surprising details about currency, then and now. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an independently ...

Imagine you earn a $100 bonus at work. One option: the cash is transferred to your bank account. The other: a digital gift card to your favorite big box retailer. In this scenario, the same monetary ...

The time value of money, or TVM, means that any amount of money has more value now than it will in the future. There are several reasons why money is worth more now than that same amount in the future ...

I wasn’t at MoneyWeek when our portfolio of investment trusts was set up in 2012, but the editor tells a funny anecdote. We are famously contrarian, so all six of the trusts originally chosen were ...

From dizzying highs to crashing lows, the cycle of speculative financial gain and putative returns continues t0 shape our economies with an invention tied to that most enduring of currencies: time ...

An auction site called U.S. Currency Auctions estimates that uncirculated $2 bills from 1890 could sell for at least $4,500. Heritage Auctions, which is self-proclaimed as the world's largest ...

Penny for your thoughts? Or maybe they are worth a nickel now that the Treasury Department is following President Donald Trump's suggestion to stop making pennies. Last month, the Treasury Department ...

Inflation is caused by the growth of the money supply, and gold is a strong hedge because it rises alongside it. I realize there’s a noticeable discrepancy between the roughly 80% loss of purchasing ...

In business, time isn’t just money—it changes the value of it as well. The concept of the Time Value of Money (TVM) may sound like something reserved for finance textbooks, but it’s one of the most ...

We now know a price for the Switch 2 Welcome Tour, which acts as a user tutorial for the various new features of the Nintendo Switch 2. According to IGN, the game will cost $10. A representative for ...

The way people are raised has a major impact on their money mindset. More often than not, kids adopt their parents’ attitude toward money, which carries over into their adult life. As difficult as it ...

Mallick is the author of Reimagine Inclusion and a workplace strategist. A few years ago, my mother’s home was flooded and very badly damaged. During a cold New England weekend, a pipe burst in the ...