Negative Space: currency
- Ariel Burr, first woman on U.S. currency
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Trans female and founder finally overcomes 19th century transphobia and political rival as first woman on United States paper currency. Ariel Burr will be the new face of the ten dollar bill, says Jack Lew.
- Currency and economic policy in the middle ages
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Prices, credit, and currencies. If you know the system, you could make a mint!
- Money Changes Everything: Empowering the vicious
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Barbarism empowers the rich, the powerful, the vicious, the strong. Civilization empowers everyone else. Gun control and centralized economies, darlings of the progressive left, have empowered the vicious since the beginning of time. The beltway crowd prefers no competition from people free to barter, or free to defend themselves.
- Money is worth only what we pretend it is worth (Part II: The Revenge of Greece)
- The definition of bankruptcy can be changed, but the fact of not having any worth is still a fact. Pretend otherwise, and you start pretending that money isn’t worth anything. And since you’re right, your currency will collapse quickly.
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- Destroying the currency to save it
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“It’s like declaring that corpses aren’t really dead, so therefore the insurance companies don’t have to pay out on any life insurance policies.”
- Hamilton getting booted off the $10 bill and replaced with a woman
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“Not only was Hamilton the first Treasury Secretary, he was ardently anti-slavery, and arguably one of the nation’s most crucial founding fathers. ‘An online petition earlier this year urged the administration to replace Jackson with abolitionist Harriet Tubman by 2020, the 100th anniversary of the constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote,’ wrote USA Today. That would’ve been a noble cause—replacing a pro-slavery wild man with a female abolitionist.”
- A Guide to Sound Money
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“Sound money is honest money in that it accurately conveys price signals and reliably serves as a store of value. Sound money is trustworthy and reliable in that it functions as a meaningful unit of account so that market participants—consumers and producers, investors and entrepreneurs—can make informed decisions and rational plans.”
