Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoThe $20 USD bill is the new 5$ billmessage-squaremessage-square93linkfedilinkarrow-up1193arrow-down134file-text
arrow-up1159arrow-down1message-squareThe $20 USD bill is the new 5$ billSomeonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square93linkfedilinkfile-text
Prices have inflated so much over the past 10 years that a $20 bill buys as much as $5 did back then.
minus-squarejubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 days agoOr the time Ulysses Grant ordered the Treasury to flood the gold market - temporarily tanking the US economy - in order to crush his own brother in laws market manipulation scheme.
Or the time Ulysses Grant ordered the Treasury to flood the gold market - temporarily tanking the US economy - in order to crush his own brother in laws market manipulation scheme.