Put Your Money To Work, On The Planet CalypsoS  The Earth
banking system may be collapsing, but now there's an
extraterrestrial bank for you to squirrel away your funds.
Entropia Universe, an MMO set on the Planet Calypso, just got a
Swedish banking license.  The license provides deposit insurance
for all the funds held in the MMO's currency, Project Entropia
Dollars, up to $60,000 worth. But it also allows regulators to
keep a closer eye on the touchy issue of money laundering in
virtual worlds.  Project Entropia Dollars are pegged to the U.S.
dollar at a 10-to-1 exchange rate, much the way China's yuan
used to be (until 2006 or thereabouts.) You can convert "real"
funds into P.E. dollars, and then if you make money in the game,
through mining, hunting or trading, you can withdraw your funds
again and turn them back into regular dollars. (The game has had
its own ATM card for the past few years.)  And now that it has a
banking license, MMO producer MindArk plans to lend out money,
pay interest on deposits an