This week, we try and wrap our heads around money via several parables and case studies. We inquire after the history of the gold standard in America, the implications of certain prison economies, and the predicament of the penny. Plus—who'd Andie MacDowell marry, and what ended the marriage life?

SOURCES:
- MarriedWiki: http://bit.ly/2oJzOuB & http://bit.ly/2p2eZgv;
- "Gold and Economic Freedom" by Alan Greenspan (1966): http://bit.ly/1kBtoGq [don't visit this cursèd site];
- Wikipedia, "Sherman Silver Purchase of 1890": http://bit.ly/2pfYlbJ;
- William Jennings Bryan, "Cross of gold" speech (orig. delivered on Jul. 8th, 1896): http://bit.ly/2pxj7Xk;
- FDR's first Fireside Chat on the banking crisis (Mar. 12th, 1933): http://bit.ly/1fkSvtg;
- FDR's Executive Order 6102: http://bit.ly/2q2FJMl;
- "How Money and Banking Work On a Gold Standard," Philosophical Economics (Jul. '14): http://bit.ly/2q4yl6i;
- Nixon, "The Challenge of Peace," address to the nation (Aug. 15th, 1971): http://bit.ly/2p24Zny;
- "The Economic Organisation of a P.O.W. Camp," by R.A. Radford, in Price Theory and Its Applications (Nov. 1945): http://unc.live/2piYA7W;
- "Blockchain Gang," NPR's Planet Money on Mackerel (Feb. '17): http://n.pr/2l84l6V;
- "Tide is the new currency on the criminal underground, can be exchanged for meth," by Cory Doctorow (Mar. '12): http://bit.ly/2qcdBWE.