Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 hours agoThe $20 USD bill is the new 5$ billmessage-squaremessage-square87fedilinkarrow-up1171arrow-down131file-text
arrow-up1140arrow-down1message-squareThe $20 USD bill is the new 5$ billSomeonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 hours agomessage-square87fedilinkfile-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-up4·18 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.