And the nickel and dime, too!” McArdle commented that if she sees a penny on the street, “I don’t bother to lean down and pick it up.” “It’s not worth my time,” Goins agreed.

I can’t call heads or tails on whether we should stop minting the penny. There are two sides to every coin, right?

Zinc and copper used to make a penny are worth almost four times the value of the coin. Bottom line: The penny is not ...

With an estimated 240 billion pennies in circulation, it’ll be a long time before we stop seeing them in the wild.

but he did say that without the penny, cash transactions would be rounded to the nearest nickel.And the United States wouldn’t be the first to dump its least valuable coin. Canada stopped minting ...

Scrap the cent or keep it; I don’t care. But let the decision be based on sound reasoning, not on gaudy talking points that add nothing to the debate.

No need to nickel-and-dime it. One solution to the penny problem is to just use paper currency. When I was at military facilities in South Korea in the early 1950s, we were required to use scrips ...

each penny costs 3.7 cents to make, including 3 cents for production costs, and 0.7 cents per coin for administrative and distribution costs. But each nickel costs 13.8 cents, with 11 cents of ...

You can’t size up to a nickel in a penny loafer, you’d have to size down. The term “dime loafers” has no ring to it whatsoever. Ask Canada (if they’re still speaking to us) what happens ...