• orclev@lemmy.world
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    So I guess they’re prepping for that hyper-inflation now. Can’t wait for a cup of coffee to cost $75 and a month’s rent to be $20,000. But hey, look on the bright side, I’m sure the stock market will look amazing breaking through all those all time records.

    Speaking of, that would be an interesting exercise. They always talk about how various funds and stocks are up or down some percent over the previous day/week/year or whatever. It would be interesting to see that same data but adjusted for inflation. Like is the dow jones up 2% from last year or is it really down 0.5% due to inflation?

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    Here’s a link to a news station not run by a fascist enabler

    https://www.wavy.com/news/politics/trump-250-bill-proposal-sparks-backlash/

    The reported push by Trump administration officials comes despite the 1866 Thayer Amendment, which makes it illegal to put the likeness of a living person on official U.S. currency, bonds or other financial notes. Additionally, current law limits U.S. currency to specific denominations and a $250 bill is not on that list.

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      Additionally, current law limits U.S. currency to specific denominations and a $250 bill is not on that list.

      At least “we can’t take X off the $Y bill” is probably an argument effective on the stupids who want Trump on something. They’d probably only want FDR off the dime, and Trump would never want to be on something so small.