“Gone are the days of penny candy or even buying a gum ball for a penny,” Snaith said. “I think at some point in history cancelling the penny would have been a bigger deal, but now people ...

President Trump’s plan to eliminate the penny could save the government money, but there’s no guarantee. By Ben Blatt President Trump recently ordered the U.S. Mint to stop producing pennies ...

President Donald Trump’s announcement that he was ordering the Treasury Department to stop minting pennies was cheered on by a group of Washington Post columnists on the paper’s Impromptu podcast.

In other words, the penny, despite costing more than 3 cents to make, is priceless, which seems to be an alien concept for our transactional president to grasp. Plus, pennies are considered good ...

When David Hartgrove was growing up in Miami in the 1950s, he would pile the coins atop the counter at his neighborhood sundries store to load up on penny candy. Hartgrove said he had fond ...