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that just might be gone. i think this is a helpful way to touch on some of the themes that i was going to introduce in the book. afterwards we can do some q. and day. the angry people. what happened to me about four or five years ago is like many people, i was getting interested in the cost of manufacturing pennies and nickels. it costs about 3.5 cents to make a penny. it cost more than the value into the object itself. nichols right now are around 10 cents per nickel. 10 cents per nickel. i did see a lot of this in the news. there is a group related to this, they were getting mocked on wall street journal, those of us that have a rational, it s crazy, but we understand were not going to get anywhere. then i started looking into the cost of cash more broadly in society. an editor wired this idea that maybe we could get rid of cash. so much of our lives are moving to the digital down. .. most transaction and most of the money zipping around the goal is all on computers ....
cash for a year. this is one hour. [applause] thank you for being here. to delve into this conversation about money and its future i thought it would be helpful to tell you about the people who are serious right now. they re furious about the idea that cash might be gone. i think this is a helpful way to touch on what i was going to introduce in the book. after a short reading we can do q&a. so the angry people. what happened to me four five years ago is like many people i was getting interested in the cost of manufacturing pennies and nickels which some people might know it costs them $0.02 to make a penny. it costs a lot more than the value stamped into the object itself. nichols right now are around $0.10 per nickel which is almost like you have to say it again. $0.10 a nickel. i was seeing a lot of this in the news like a lot of people. a group called citizens to retire the penny and on the colbert report and the washington journal. for those of us who have a rati ....
coming up on c-span2, presentation of booktv. first a discussion with the end of money author, david wolman. next, a discussion discussion on david wolman s book, the end of money. a contributing editor at wired magazine considers the possibility that cash will disappear when he takes on a year-long quest to live without physical money. this event from the harvard store in cambridge massachusetts is an hour. [applause] thank you all for being here. to delve into this conversation about money, i thought it might be helpful to tell you a little bit about all of the people who have with me right now and this idea that cash might be gone someday. i think this is a helpful way to touch on some of the themes that i was going to introduce in the book and then after a short reading we can do some q&a. okay, so the angry people. what happened to me for five years ago is, i, like many people getting interested in the cost of manufacturing pennies and nickels, but some ....
so, this was a moment for generation facebook to understand what it means to live under the mubarak regime. .and ignited a revolution. it wasn t just youth, it wasn t just the middle class. you had it across egypt. then, in our second story, the muslim brotherhood. we re talking about the largest opposition force in egypt by far. no one really comes close. long demonized by mubarak to inspire fear of islamic extremism. does america understand the muslim brotherhood? the us doesn t really understand the muslim brotherhood. correspondent charles sennott examines the brotherhood s potential role in the new egypt. it is the young members informing the old guard what to do, and they are trying to catch up and they are not catching up. tonight on frontline, revolution in cairo. ( chanting ) frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major funding is ....
it wasn t just youth, it wasn t just the middle class. you had it across egypt. then, in our second story, the muslim brotherhood. we re talking about the largest opposition force in egypt by far. no one really comes close. long demonized by mubarak to inspire fear of islamic extremism. does america understand the muslim brotherhood? the us doesn t really understand the muslim brotherhood. correspondent charles sennott examines the brotherhood s potential role in the new egypt. it is the young members informing the old guard what to do, and they are trying to catch up and they are not catching up. tonight on frontline, revolution in cairo. ( chanting ) frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major funding is provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. and by reva ....