Is this psyops also happening in other countries ??

This news was first announced several weeks ago... and I recently saw a sign about it in a local retail store.

First they tried to claim currency was infected with the virus. But that didn't work. Will this be the new excuse to stop cash commerce ???


Another consequence of the pandemic: a nationwide shortage of coins

June 18, 2020

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell acknowledged a nationwide coin shortage due in part to the coronavirus pandemic and a blockage in the coin supply chain.

(CNN) - Masks were the first to go. Then toilet paper flew off shelves. And while Americans are being nickel-and-dimed with coronavirus-related costs in a shaky economy, the latest national shortage includes, well, nickels and dimes.
There's a coin shortage in the US.

"What's happened is that, with the partial closure of the economy, the flow of coins through the economy has gotten all it's kind of stopped," Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell said during a virtual hearing with the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday.

That's because the supply chain that coins usually flow through has been interrupted during the pandemic, Powell said.

Banks and businesses have shuttered or changed the way they operate. And so there are fewer coins reaching the public.

"The places where you go to give your coins, and get credit at the store and get cash you know, folding money those have not been working. Stores have been closed," he said. "So the whole system has kind of, had come to a stop."


During the hearing Wednesday, Rep. John Rose of Tennessee told Powell that banks in his district were notified by the Federal Reserve that they'd only receive a small portion of their weekly coin order. The banks told him they'd likely run out of coins by the end of the week or may need to round up or down if they run low, Rose said.

"In a time when pennies are the difference between profitability and loss, it seems like it might be a bigger concern than the announcement from the Fed would indicate that it is," Rose said.

more at link

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/18/us/us...rnd/index.html