Devaluation in China continues

China has set a lower value for its yuan currency for the third straight day.
Investors monitor screens showing stock market movements at a brokerage house in Shanghai on Thursday.
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How to fool around with your currency

Aug 11, 2015
Buying your own coinage is like leaving your own Yelp review.

China’s devaluation of the yuan presents challenges

Marketplace's Shanghai correspondent says the Chinese economy's failures are progress.

Japan's trade negotiations may be troubled by currency

Apr 28, 2015
Some are claiming the Bank of Japan is manipulating currency.
An oil well in North Dakota.
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The rich history of money and why we can't master it

Mar 19, 2015
Author Kabir Sehgal explores the history and psychology of money in his new book

Inside an alternative universe of currencies

Jan 15, 2015
Satirists Sam Weiner and Daniel Kibblesmith introduce us to the hippest money around.

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Why are there so few $2 bills?

Jan 9, 2015
The saga of America's most misunderstood currency note.
A sheet of $2 bills.
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Lithuania rings in the new year with a new currency

Jan 1, 2015
It's the 19th state to adopt the euro.

It won't be easy for ISIS to create its own currency

Nov 14, 2014
Establishing a gold-and-silver system creates problems in a modern global economy.