We took our new kittens to the vet yesterday to get their first shots and check ups.

We also stopped to get some gasoline for the mower and other gas powered tools.

Candy was hungry and wanted a burger. At the drive-thru window was a sign requesting exact change if possible due to a national coin shortage.

From > https://www.fastcompany.com/90525599

Our currency system is based on circulation—the money must constantly move. “The flow of coin through the economy has gotten all . . . it’s kind of stopped,” Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve, told the House Financial Services Committee last month. “The places where you go to give your coins and get credit, cash—those have not been working. Stores have been closed. So the whole system of flow has kind of come to a stop.” Coin deposits at banks are down 50% since the start of the pandemic, and customers are avoiding places like transit hubs and laundromats, which typically receive influxes of coins.
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The economy has been torn asunder by the corona virus pandemic. It is causing a major drop in coins circulating.

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