About a dozen years ago, a pseudonymous commenter on a financial website, writing under the name Beowulf, presented an unusual solution for a debt-ceiling standoff: If the federal government was at ...

“U.S. Lincoln one-cent denomination coins used to be composed of 95 percent copper, however, since 1982 have been made of 97.5 percent zinc with a 2.5 percent ...

We tend to take it for granted that a coin is worth its face value and, in many respects it is. But have you ever thought about what it costs to actually make those coins? How they are made, what goes ...