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Britain switched off its prison currency in 2018. Within months, inmates had reinvented money from scratch. What they chose tells you what money really is.

The Freddo was 10p for thirteen years. Cadbury itself now charges 45p, and cocoa only explains about 3p of the journey. A chocolate frog's guide to where your money went.

It takes 600 dead phones to make one gold ring. Inside the Royal Mint's plan to outlive the death of the coin.

For thirty-eight years the ONS published what a pint cost, every month, in pence. The series stops in January 2025 at £4.83. Here is what replaced it, and why two official figures for the same pint are 41p apart.

McDonald's collects around $10 billion a year in rent from its own franchisees, on land it bought decades ago. The burgers were never the business.

An Italian bank has been taking wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano as loan security since 1953, and it has never lost a euro. The reason why explains a lot about whisky casks, warehouses, and what makes anything worth lending against.