Y2K mavens, some of whom have been stockpiling gold and greenbacks, heard about this. Guess what happened next. As Y2K Newswire predicted fourteen months ago, bankers are now pumping up the 'hoarding' phrase and working to outlaw cash entirely. Longtime doomsayer and gold-standard buff Gary North couldn't leave it alone. Without computers, this scheme could not work.
Currency still has a future.
But with only 62 days left 'til Y2K, they'll have to move pretty quickly to accomplish anything in time. Worse yet, nobody seems to know what's going on. But even that hardly-sunny report isn't accurate. At stake are medical programs for millions of Americans. VHA estimates that in 1998 it filled about 72 million prescriptions for 3.4 million veterans.