Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 hours agoThe $20 USD bill is the new 5$ billmessage-squaremessage-square75fedilinkarrow-up1151arrow-down129file-text
arrow-up1122arrow-down1message-squareThe $20 USD bill is the new 5$ billSomeonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 hours agomessage-square75fedilinkfile-text
Prices have inflated so much over the past 10 years that a $20 bill buys as much as $5 did back then.
minus-squareBananaIsABerry@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up5·15 hours agoShhh don’t tell them about what happened after both world wars
minus-squarejubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·15 hours 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.
Shhh don’t tell them about what happened after both world wars
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.