Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 hours agoThe $20 USD bill is the new 5$ billmessage-squaremessage-square76fedilinkarrow-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-square76fedilinkfile-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-up4·15 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.
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.