Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 hours agoThe $20 USD bill is the new 5$ billmessage-squaremessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up191arrow-down116file-text
arrow-up175arrow-down1message-squareThe $20 USD bill is the new 5$ billSomeonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 hours agomessage-square28fedilinkfile-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-up3·8 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.