261. Why Are We Still Using Cash?
261. Why Are We Still Using Cash?  
Podcast: Freakonomics Radio
Published On: Thu Sep 29 2016
Description: It facilitates crime, bribery, and tax evasion -- and yet some governments (including ours) are printing more cash than ever. Other countries, meanwhile, are ditching cash entirely. And if Star Trek is right, we won't have money of any sort in the 24th century.