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Two more political dollar notes of Nixon and Bush jr.

Started by Pellinore, February 12, 2024, 12:20:57 AM

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Pellinore

Some more political fun notes. They measure about 10 x 19 cm.
-- Paul


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The second note is indeed a dark issue. It is not and it is not meant as fun. Its source is Alex Jones. To the right (where else :)) of the seal of the US is a bar marked INFOWARS . COM. Infowars is Jones' signature TV programme. Wiki puts his long litany of lies in perspective. The same Alex Jones is being promoted by extremist journalist Tucker Carlson and presidential candidate D. J. Trump. The note seeks to perpetuate the myth that the US government, headed at the time by Republican president George Bush, fabricated the 11th September 2001 attacks on the WTC and other places.

Peter
An unidentified coin is a piece of metal. An identified coin is a piece of history.

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The first note spoofs what is known as the Nixon shock (1971). Under Republican president Richard Nixon, US inflation shot up, mostly as a consequence of government expenditure for the war in Vietnam. Nixon tried to extract the US from that war in order to end inflation, but felt he needed a political cover, a treaty with the North Vietnamese. That took time, so Nixon came up with a wage and prize freeze, a government imposed financial moratorium, flanked by an end to the convertibility of the dollar in gold, making all currencies fiduciary.

The irony is that while the Nixon shock eventually caused incredible misery in all of South-East Asia* and significant economic pain in Europe, the note looks only at domestic consequences.

Peter

*At the time of the boat fugitives, I covered South-East Asia in the Dutch ministry of Economic Affairs. I still have not fully digested the horror stories of those days.
An unidentified coin is a piece of metal. An identified coin is a piece of history.

Pellinore

Thank you very much. Heavy. I did not know this.

-- Paul