Comment on The $20 USD bill is the new 5$ bill

• foggy@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Are you under the impression that this prevented inflation somehow?

  Spoiler: it didn’t.

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  • BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Shhh don’t tell them about what happened after both world wars

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    • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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• 667@lemmy.radio ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The US went off the gold standard in 1971 and OP is talking about 10 years ago, so 2016.

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  • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m replying to the “100 years ago” guy talking about halfpence.

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    • 667@lemmy.radio ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ahh, fair. I misread that.

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