Why were people in the United States in the nineteenthcentury sometimes willing to be paid by check ratherthan with gold, even though they knew there was a possibility that the check might bounce?

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Why were people in the United States in the nineteenth
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than with gold, even though they knew there was a possibility that the check might bounce?

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