The first appearance of the eagle on U.S. coins came with the Coinage Act of 1792, which required the eagle to appear on the reverse side of gold and silver coins. The “Eagle” even became the name of ...

The Coinage Act of 1792 established the US dollar as the country’s official money. President George Washington signed it into law in April 1792—just one year after the Bill of Rights was ratified.

The Bulgarian lev (BGN) was independent for only 7 years - from March 1990 to March 1997. During this period, it was not pegged to any other currency, silver, or gold. Ironically, today marks the ...

By requiring that stablecoins are backed 1:1 to the US dollar, the GENIUS Act reinforces the dollar’s role as the “world’s digital settlement currency,” the report stated.

The Coinage Act went further by legally fixing the gold-to-silver ratio at 15:1 (meaning 15 ounces of silver is equal to 1 ounce of gold) and then pegged the U.S. dollar (denominated in gold and ...

The Department of Homeland Security head was asked to define habeas corpus during a congressional hearing on Tuesday and offered something like the procedure's exact opposite.

For 50 years, the U.S. government has interpreted the Endangered Species Act as protecting threatened and endangered species from actions that either directly kill them or eliminate their habitat.

In 2017, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., introduced the COINS act to eliminate the minting of the pennies and suggest the dollar be switched from paper notes to a metal coin.

What You Need To Know The Common Cents act calls for the Secretary of the Treasury to stop minting the penny and to require cash transactions to be rounded up or down to the nearest five cents It ...