Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoThe $20 USD bill is the new 5$ billmessage-squaremessage-square93fedilinkarrow-up1188arrow-down133file-text
arrow-up1155arrow-down1message-squareThe $20 USD bill is the new 5$ billSomeonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square93fedilinkfile-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-up5·1 day agoShhh don’t tell them about what happened after both world wars
minus-squarejubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 day 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.