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Bernanke Blasts Lew's $10 Bill Woman-ification
Authored by Ben Bernanke via The Brookings Institute,
I must admit I was appalled to hear of Treasury Secretary Jack Lew's decision last week to demote Alexander Hamilton from his featured position on the ten dollar bill. My reaction has been widely shared, see for example here, here, here, here, and here.
Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury, would qualify as among the greatest of our founders for his contributions to achieving American independence and creating the Constitution alone. In addition to those accomplishments, however, Hamilton was without doubt the best and most foresighted economic policymaker in U.S. history. As detailed in Ron Chernow's excellent biography, as Treasury Secretary Hamilton put in place the institutional basis for the modern U.S. economy. Critically, he helped put U.S. government finances on a sound footing, consolidating the debts of the states and setting up a strong federal fiscal system. The importance of Hamilton's achievement can be judged by the problems that the combination of uncoordinated national fiscal policies and a single currency has caused the Eurozone in recent years. Reflecting on those parallels, as Fed chairman I recommended Chernow's biography to Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank. Mario told me that he read it with great interest.
Hamilton also played a leading role in creating U.S. monetary and financial institutions. He founded the nation's first major bank, the Bank of New York; and, as Chernow points out, Hamilton's 1791 Report on the Mint set the basis for U.S. currency arrangements, which makes his demotion from the ten dollar bill all the more ironic. Importantly, over the objections of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, Hamilton also oversaw the chartering in 1791 of the First Bank of the United States, which was to serve as a central bank and would be a precursor of the Federal Reserve System.
In the nineteenth century, a principal public role of central banks was to control banking panics, as the Bank of England would do quite successfully. Unfortunately, in large part because of populist opposition, neither the First Bank of the United States nor its successor, the Second Bank of the United States, would have their charters renewed. President Andrew Jackson led the opposition to the Second Bank, vetoing a bill passed by Congress to continue its operations. The expiration of the Second Bank's charter in 1836 likely worsened the very severe Panic of 1837, which was followed by a prolonged economic depression. The United States would go on to suffer numerous banking panics that would hamper its economic and financial development over the rest of the century.
Hamilton's demotion is intended to make room to honor a deserving woman on the face of our currency. That's a fine idea, but it shouldn't come at Hamilton's expense. As many have pointed out, a better solution is available: Replace Andrew Jackson, a man of many unattractive qualities and a poor president, on the twenty dollar bill. Given his views on central banking, Jackson would probably be fine with having his image dropped from a Federal Reserve note. Another, less attractive, possibility is to circulate two versions of the ten dollar bill, one of which continues to feature Hamilton.
I was in government long enough to know that decisions like this have considerable bureaucratic inertia and are accordingly hard to reverse. But the Treasury Department should do everything within its power to defend the honor of Jack Lew's most illustrious predecessor.
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So.. keep Hamilton (pro-Fed) but dump Jackson (anti-Fed)...
Did Bernanke just become the internet's biggest troll? Of course, Bernanke has already reserved the $100 trillion bill for his own omnipotent likeliness.
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What is wrong with the Monoply man?
Hmmmm I like this Andrew Jackson fellow a lot more now...
They should put Disney characters on the bills.
These guys should be on the fiat... just to remind everyone: http://www.geke.us/images/Austrian.jpg
A Jewish banker doesn't like Andrew Jackson?
<surprised look>
pods
Move over Jackson, Pamela Geller should be on that bill.
Put White Chocolate on it.
She's not really black, and it's not really money.
pods
Krusty the Clown
or Moe Szyslak
There is nothing more American than a jew fighting a Muslim. Geller.
Bernank is mad at Andrew Jackson because paper money works so well, doesn't allow central bankers to blow bubbles, and doesn't impoverish and collapse the nation.
Andrew Jackson sure was a bad, bad man.
It's not like it matters who is on this stuff anymore. Especially when getting your picture on currency will soon be exactly the same as getting a job at the secret service - diversity over qualifications.
Put a picture of Mohammed on the $10.
Of course the only president to stand up to the central bankers and pay off the national debt is hated by Bernanke. Explained here.
BTW - put Ayn Rand on the $10 bill just to complete the irony of having Andew Jackson on an FRN.
I'm thinking Yellen, because she'll save the economy right?
/end sarc...
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I named my son after Andrew Jackson.
'Beardsly McButtonup?'
Good trolling, Ben Shalom our good and faithful servant!!!
Thank you, Masters!!!
Let me understand this.
Ben Shalom is ridiculing Jack Lew for the "womanification" of the Ten Dollar Bill?
I am much more angry about Bernanke's DEVALUATION of the Ten Dollar Bill.
But he just does not get that.
I expected that to be the very first comment.
How many of you lack that understanding of Bernanke's BULLSHIT?
I do not give a damn about what dead Caesar is on the Ten Dollar Note.
I do not care at all for the artwork as it presently stands.
I care about the Goods and Services that I can trade that Note for.
Andrew Jackson was asked shortly before dying what is greatest accomplishment was.
"I killed the bank"
This guy should be on every bill of every denomination.
Not if he had his way, he'd be on gold and silver coins and that would be the US currency as stated in the constitution. He hated paper money.
somebody someday will best him with:
"I killed the Bernanke"...probably Soros cardiologist...practicing..
hahaha of course bernanke says jackson was a terrible president. He called central bankers the worst things you could call them back then, a den of vipers, and said that they were thieves feeding off the american citizenry, all of which is true. Wasn't a particularly nie fellow to the indians, but hey, no ones perfect....
Although I do believe that andrew jackson wouldn't even want to be on a 20 anyway. He recognized paper money and central banks for what they are, and likely wouldn't want his picture on their counterfit dollars anyway.
Put some fucking woman on there, I personally think 'caitln' jenner is a much better representaion of america today than anything else anyone could think of. If that doesn;t reflect how fucked and fucked up we are as a country, society, and culture, i don't know what does. Put her on there, or fucking rosa parks and her staged picture on that bus. PERFECT. 'Murica...
I guess Bernanke doesn't get the joke. Andrew Jackson is the only president to crush the bankers, to ignore their bribes, to survive their assassinations. He stood up to Nicolas Biddle, and he won.
Putting him on the 20 was a measure of the respect the bankers had for their deceased adversary AND simultaneously a frankly pretty intense statement of "I piss on your grave". There is no place less honorable for a man like Andrew Jackson to be memorialized than a piece of paper currency. The bank not only outlived him and won, it taunts his ghost every time you use that bill.
Naaa, that'd be a too realistic representation of our economy......
I vote for Paris Hilton.
Swallowing.
We already have a woman on U.S. currency:
http://m.snopes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/dollar.jpg
It's still legal tender.
The best idea for which woman's face to put on the X Note, is from my 10 y.o.: Emilia Erhahrt.
The only thing I do agree with with the Bernank, in his article, is that TWO versions be allowed to circulate, and let People decide which 10'er they'll accept as change.
All the more reason to replace Jackson's image. He'd be rolling over in his grave if he knew his likeness was on a CB fiat note.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-federal-reserve-cartel-freemasons-and-the-house-of-rothschild/25179
Catlin jenner on the $1, kim kardashian on the $10, hannah montana miley cyrus on the $20, oprah on the $50 (fiddy), Shelian Jackson lee on the $100.. there fixed it by putting americas favorite skanks on all our useless bills!
Put Hillary on the $10.00 bill. Both have an intrinsic value of ZERO!
Thats right Hog! That way, Chucky Cheese tokens can become the new $1 coin! The resemblance is uncanny! money saved on making new dies and all that...just trying to help.
I think she would look better on the new wooden nickel.
Janet Yellen on the $500, and Michelle Obama on the $1 trillion coin.
You beat me to it, I was going to say it would be reflective of the value.
Isn't the $2 bill a more appropriate place for Caitlyn Jenner?
I think you're talking about the $3 bill..
you know that whole thing about something being 'phonier than a $3 bill'..
Unless what he meant is that the place I have seen $2 bills used most commonly is strip clubs. If he's suggesting that the same culture that has seen an explosion in strip clubs has also now given us the all-Caitlyn all the time, then this is an insightful comment.
Nah it's the old saying "Queer as a two dollar bill"
Huh. I hadn't heard that one before. Thanks for the enlightenment.
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006042922936
The old saying is 'Queer as a $3 bill' and it derived from the time when the $2 was in wider circulation. Similiar to the saying about wooden nickles.
Actually, the banks in the 1830-1860 time frame issued $3.00 bills. They were printed on a sheet, usually $1, $2, $3 and $5 per sheet. When the government started printing 'greenbacks' all these banks were either chartered to the new Federal currency (United States Notes or Redeeming Notes) or went bust. The entire issue of these banks is known as 'obsolete currency' by those who collect the stuff. Since the Federal Government did not issue a $3.00 bill, the saying came about as ANY $3.00 bill was worthless. There was, by the way, a 3 cent bill, used to pay for postage stamps, but that's another story...
BTW, Hamilton got his just reward for being Rothschild's man Friday, an extra hole. The good guys won that day. At this point, we might as well have Minnie Mouse on the $10 bill and Goofy on the C note.
I was thinking Mr. Peanut, but let's go with yours.
Didn't you read? Wrong genitals.
Hey Bernanke, Andrew Jackson DISOLVED the Bank of the United States...THAT is why you dislike him.
And I always thought that was WHY he wound up on the $20.
Let him go, Flagit. He's on a roll.
as I said before, I think jackson should be taken off paper money. He recognized it for what it is, bullshit, and most definitely would not want his name or face on anything called a federal reserve note. Putting a tranny or a black woman idolized by morons would PERFECTLY reflect america. Get all the ex presidents off there too. We should put it to a popular vote, the whole country, and see what the results are. They WILL be fucking hilarious since most of our citizens are braindead sheep. We will get a laugh out of it, and it will be a perfect example of how fucked we are.
Put Honey Boo-boo on the 10 burger bill.
This is a great idea. Too bad it'll never happen. If it did, might just tip too many asleep people over into the camp of those who see the joke for what it is.
Jackson understood the danger to the Republic of the establishment of the central bank. He said "By God, I shall rout you out!" which he did. He would be horrified to find his name and face on a piece of fiat currency.
On the other hand, Hamilton would probably be delighted to see his face plastered on any Fed note. I believe he was instrumental in forming the 1st central bank in the USA.
Ask a straight Ex FED chairman like Volker and see what he thinks.
His mind would instantly start racing with thoughts of $200,000 speaking engagements to pontificate about it.
Andrew Jackson? Really Bernanke? Old Hickory actually had a pair of balls, unlike our modern day policy makers.
Bernanke's face should be on toilet paper.
how about Bernanke in drag?
That image will haunt my dreams.
FUCK YOU! B.Bernake you sir are a peice of shit!
A rope that fits your neck and a lamp post would be a very good start!
Of course you'll go down in history as some sort of genius... which you are not.
shoot the messenger
Of course he wants the anti-central bank president out. I would tattoo President Andrew Jackson on their small foreheads. Who do I mean? All the banksters that is.
"Did Bernanke just become the internet's biggest troll?"
Possibly. I was against the face-change for the $10 bill, personally. Now that I know I'm on the same side as Bernanke, I think I've changed my mind. Put a picture of Bruce Jenner's before-and-after junk on the damned thing for all I care at this point.
And while they're at it, put Spongebob on the $1 bill. At least people would recognize who it is. Nobody knows who this "Washington" guy was any more. Probably didn't do anything important or relevant anyway.
If you give a flying rat's ass through a rolling donut what Bernanke thinks about anything down vote here
Of course, Ben's picture should be on the FBI's TEN MOST WANTED!
Was really surprised to hear they were dumping Hamilton, must be a head fake. In defense of Andrew Jackson, a true American, as opposed to Hamilton, a Rothschild agent.
http://winteractionables.com/?p=20924
Besides Washington, Jackson, best president EVER. Told the banksters where to get off....
Washington was a high degree mason, totoally responsible for the iron grid of control America lives under, responsible for the design and foundation od Washington DC, and he has been deified. Do a search for "The Apotheosis of George Washington".
The man in an apron ;-)
Washington sold America down the potomac.
Wake up.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm1995kYjII
Washington letter from 1798 warning the nation about Illuminati inflitration into the freemasons and the Republic.. preserved in the library of Congress.
Yo Cheemosabi .. you wake the fuck up .. you know very little.
Hey, why not put Ben on the new $1000 bill we will need shortly?
What a complete dickhead he is.
Dick Nixon needs to be recognized. Put his image on the $20. He destroyed the USD on August 15, 1971.
Of course our Glorious Leader needs to be on the $1...Janet Yellen that is.
Everybody needs to know what that bitch looks like...POST COLLAPSE.
Then we can put Obama on the $5.
George W. Bush also deserves Recognition. He needs to be on the Ten with the Burning World Trade Center on the Reverse..
And the $2 needs to have Ben Bernanke.
It is all Monopoly Money anyway.
They have to do it. the Administrationis running out of "unprecedented" shit to do.
I have no problem with ending the farce that America's founders are still revered in the NEW America. Put Bernanke and Yellen on the bills to show who really controls the nation and to document America's decline.
Enough with this pretend bullshit.
You mean the Star of David.
I don't much like to be in a position of agreeing with Ben Bernanke; but on this point he is correct.
Andrew Jackson broke The Bank of The United States. He was not only one of the most ardent opponents of central banking. He was the only one who actually took one down. So, it would be a natural for the US Treasury to strike down Jackson and to preserve Hamilton.
HOWEVER . . .
During Jackson's presidency, the United States paid off 100% of its national debt. It was a remarkable achievement which no other president ever achieved.
To my way of thinking, there is no better symbol of the US Dollar as "SOUND MONEY" than the image of Andrew jackson.
Jackson first appeared on the $20 bill in 1928. Although it coincides with the 100th anniversary of Jackson's election as president, it is not clear the reason the bill was switched from Grover Cleveland to Andrew Jackson. According to the U.S. Treasury, "Treasury Department records do not reveal the reason that portraits of these particular statesmen were chosen in preference to those of other persons of equal importance and prominence."[5]
The placement of Jackson on the $20 bill may be a historical irony; as president, he vehemently opposed both the National Bank and paper money and made the goal of his administration the destruction of the National Bank.[6][7] In his farewell address to the nation, he cautioned the public about paper money.[8]
Anyone ever fold the bills in sequence to see the twin towers fall as they burned? Those designes had to be done early. I used to have all those bills at one time but don't remember the issue. It only was there on some. The $50 was redesigned in 97'.
And of course, the $100.
And for desert, Andrew Mellon was Secretary Of The Treasury in 1928 when Jackson was placed on the $20.
The single most revealing thing to me about this was the following:
"I was in government long enough to know that decisions like this"
When was Bernanke in the government? I thought the Federal Reserve was independent of the government in it's formation of monetary policy?
From the Richmond Fed:
"It is considered an independent central bank because its monetary policy decisions do not have to be approved by the President or anyone else in the executive or legislative branches of government, it does not receive funding appropriated by the Congress, and the terms of the members of the Board of Governors span multiple presidential and congressional terms."
https://www.richmondfed.org/faqs/frs
In fact the Constitution expressly prohibits a central bank from being part of the government and all monetary decisions are to be made by congress. So this is a shocking admission.
you thought wrong, they used to call these things freudian slips. i forget the quote from the literary detective to paraphrase, everyone is lying, they build up a wall of lies lies about who they are what they did and they have to keep patching the wall filling it guarding it against attack but the detective keeps asking the same question and eventually they slip and truth is out. (much like the white woman in the NAACP. when confronted she just got up and left) by the way you saw Yellen do this the other day when asked about leaks. Dr House says everyone is lying.
Jackson must stay as a reminder the private central banks can be removed, they tried to kill him to prevent it.
Slap the queen of Zimbabwe on there.
"a man of many unattractive qualities"
By whose standards ? A PC retard, perhaps.
Alexander Hamilton (real last name reputed to be "Levin") was a Rothschild stooge, Mr Burr did the US great favor.
It was also Hamilton who, in the Federalist, stated that the Federal Court would be the least powerful of the three mythical branches of the supposed "Checks and Balances". The guy had a great sense of humor.
Thank you
Bernanke says Jackson has “unattractive qualities” but Bernanke is the man whose unattractive qualities can compete for the worst human who ever lived. And with these blemishes, this unelected puppet of tyrants has absolutely no right to comment on the political life of these United States.
And, by the way, Jackson, in no small part of his opposition to a central bank, was a major force in stopping the many financial thieves who proposed to steal all the resources of America. In short, Jackson was a man, and no more loyal American has ever existed.
An elected president at the time, Jackson’s force of personality was needed; he had not only the responsibility but the right to speak against the central bank. Bernanke’s conduct, notwithstanding his criminal background with the Fed, has no right to criticize Jackson or to suggest that his memory be replaced by some marginal, politically correct character.
It's instructive to realize that Bernanke speaks with the permission of the United States Congress. And if the Federal Reserve so controls the currency (its value, who receives it and who is denied) that they can now use it as an advertisement on which presidents America should have and which presidents it should not, then for us citiizens it is a bridge too far. This Federal Reserve must be destroyed completely or the arrogance of this new strategy means that the owners of the NY Federal Reserve Bank can now broadcast that they control every single aspect of the American system and society, even to advertising on the currency who can be president or who cannot. It seems to be the final stage of tyranny.
Bernanke and Lew, of course, do not speak for the U.S. Treasury, they speak for Goldman Sachs, a private bank.
must be the whole den of vipers and thieves comment to bankers that got the berskank all ruffled.
Truth hurts doesnt it Ben?
Let's cut to the chase... and put a pic of Mayer Rothschild on the $100 bill... so we remember who is cornholing us... I recommend Arron Burr for the $10, and Ron Paul for the $20. The Bernank's pic is on my toilet paper roll... feels great each morning to rub his face into my ass... I have rolls of Obongo, Hillyroach, Marie harf-barf and Victor/Victoria Nuland on the way...
it seems to me it'd make perfect sense to put the Fed stock holders portrait's on Federal Reserve Notes...I guess the problem is...it's not been made public who they are...
Pretty sure the biggest trolls ever were the Board of Governors in the late 1920s who decided to put Andrew Jackson on the $20.
> Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury, would qualify as among the greatest of our founders
Hamilton, a great admirer of the Bank of England, was a staunch proponent of the system we find ourlselves under today, i.e. elite controlled central banking, powerful centralised federal government, nationwide income tax (to "bind" the nation as he put it), etc, etc...he thought the country was best ruled by elites/aristocrats/royalty with the masses firmly under the thumb of the ruling class...Jefferson disagreed with much of what Hamilton had to say.
I always remember quite disliking Hamilton compared to other founding fathers such as Washington, Adams, Jefferson, etc.. while studying history in high school. He reminds me of many politicians today.. its not that he didn't want more centralized power in government.. he just didn't want it in the hands of those he disagreed with. Because when he and his ilk have the reigns of power and control it's not tyranny because they know better.
If he were alive today, Jackson would be building death camps for people like Bernanke...
Trail of Tears 2.0 would be too compassionate for the Keynesian psychopaths of Central (Raping) Banking.
All dollar denominations should carry portraits of various LGBTQ heroes and heroines.
Jackson will be replaced by Obama. Book it.
Ben QUIT THE BS! Just once can't you people EVER tell the truth???
Who started the ASSAULT on our American culture that our ancestors built??? YOUR PEEPS DID, Benny!
And what your peeps did to Mel Gibson, your peeps did earlier to a true HERO, Charles Lindbergh. [PDF version here] So Benny, GIVE IT A REST you POS!
Ben, Ben, that's no way to go through life, bald, drunk and stupid...
several comments on above: bernank was part of gov, the federal reserve BOARD is. washington was a pos -- he joined with the hated bank of england to establish the first central bank. of course jackson is on a bill, the pigmen like to rub their+our noses in it. and he's not the only good guy getting that treatment..
The Numistmatists are having a heyday!
They are happier than an asphyscopheliac in a belt factory! Necropheliac in a mortuary?, Pedophile in a daycare? Negromoncer at a bible study? What? too soon?
geezus...is that what passes for humor in your neck of the woods? you really oughta get out more cletus...
Please, please really put Caitlyn Jenner in place of the $10 bill already. Stop teasing us with that photo mock-up, I know the US government really wants to do so. It really represents how the current society has went down the crapper. While launching the Scheiss dollar lets replace all the other presidents as well with the oligarchs like George Soros, Obummer in Drag with Reggie giving it to him, a picture of Bush with the Pretzel, Hitlery Clinton with the Moustache and the strap on, Horse face Kerry, Wet Start McCain as Dr. Evil, Bill Clinton receiving oral from Monica, Papa Bush molesting boys from Boystown. While the one dollar should serve as a US symbol: Kim Kardasian naked with her big butt facing up front. That should show the world alright. For each coin have the symbol of the monopoly man and the $1 Trillion bill have lord Rothchild on the face. The founding fathers should be kept spinning from the grave. Let's stop pretending, might as well dig their graves and dump their bodies on the river after all in present day these people will be considered rebel rousers or better yet the aptly "T" word would be used to describe them. Stop being pretentious the real owners and rulers of the USSA. Unveil your true colors now via the Schiess dollar please already.
Putting women on bills: the feminization and pussification of the c(o)untry named America continue. (Same shit with a lot countries in the world, not limited to US.)
At least, if you want to pull out the retard feminist card and putting women on bills, pick someone more credible: Ayn Rand.
Margaret Sanger will be on a bill.. mark my words. The leftists are that stupid that they would put a racist, mass murdering eugenicist on the $10 and call it 'progress'
Lets be honest - put Natanyahu's image on every bill.
the bernank would probably like a picture of himself sucking jamie dimon's cock on there
While I disagree with the author on most every point, I agree that removing Jackson from the FRN, but keeping Hamilton, is appropriate.
It is important that only the portraits of the deserving become toilet paper.
If letting bankers suffer the natural consequences of their misjudgements is such a horrible thing...then why draw the line with bankers? Why not everyone?
But that's just it.
For one profession to enjoy undeserved gains in the face of poor judgment, other professions must suffer undeserved losses in the face of good judgement.
This subsidy to the undeserving is the oxygen in the moral, physical, and mental decline of the West.
You get more of what you subsidize. Moral Hazard.
Which, incidentally, is why Socialism fails...that and the pricing quandary... But only the Moral Hazard is a fatal flaw, as people can, do, and have muddled along in government-enforced penury for millenia at a time.
But introduce a system of moral hazard, and complete civilizational collapse is only decades away.
The question I have regarding Lew's press-release:
Just exactly who is this mythical "woman of historical significance" that they are thinking of ?
In reflective contemplation, there is only one woman I can think of who embodied the American spirit, and stood her ground, fought for her personal freedom, and defended her God-given rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (or, at least her right to comfortable feet); and that woman is Rosa Parks.
Who else is there? Susan B Anthony? Been there, done that.
Dolly Madison? .... ummm No.....
Betsy Ross? - Ok, Yeah, perhaps the Queen of the American Flag deserves her immortality on the face of a United States Treasury Note... But NOT an FRN.
Of course- These Rothschild-Keynesian imbeciles at the modern Fed and Treasury will probably go with Eleanor Roosevelt, as tribute to her husband the Wall Street war-monger...
Margaret Sanger..
The poster child of leftist insanity.
Hah- Or maybe Ruth Bader-Ginsburg.... {vomit}
How's about Lovey Howell?
Again the solution is simple. Prohibit putting a human image on our media of exchange and our stamps. Remove human names from our buildings and our streets. Remove human pictures from our houses of government and courts (except the galaries designed for that purpose).
Solution to same sex marriage issue is equally simple. Remove any government recognized or provided benefit from entering into a partnership ... any partnership. Let contract law prevail.
I agree, as if the government santifies a 'face (person)' then it ajoins in what ever action that 'face' may have entered creating a liability to the corperation known as the government, wheras if no reconition is done, any liabious action is only atributable to that individual and those induviduals acting on the orders or in colusion with that 'face'.
As to the real constiutional money, it all has women on it until the begining of the implimentation (committee consideration) of the FED (1907), and then the first guiy was considered a 'savage'. Oh how those 'Indians' command such a premium price. Never-the-less the most famous woman was created by St. Gauden. that all ended in 1933 (except those few that 'escaped').
What a douche
It's to distract us from the real CURSE that Bernanke and Lew's co-religionists have imposed on America >>> https://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2014/07/17/is-america-cursed/
< Kim Kardashian
< Paris Hilton
The new 1 dollar bills will have Golda Meir on the front and a dreidel on the back. Spinoza and Maimonides were obviously never in the running.
How about Ronald McDonald's image on the $10.00 note & charge McDonald's Corp "naming rights".
Or: Colonel Sander's / KFC, Luis Vitton, Goldman Sachs, you get the drift...
Corporate Bucks
Of course! Advertising! Why didn't the Fed think of that?
Bernanke, just STFU!!!!!
The sooner benny is executed legally by the PEOPLE for CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, mass murder of the 99.9% by private central bankster theft, corruption, perjury and treason the better. Can't wait for his decapitated head to be in a basket! Rot in hell scumbag parasite!
Maybe at this point Alexander Hamilton wouldn't want his picture on the bill. It's not good enough for him anymore. Might as well put trash on trash. Thank you Federal Reserve.
Hamilton was the point man for the bankers in establishing the predecessor of the Fed, the First Bank of the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Bank_of_the_United_States
That's why I don't like Hamilton.
Not far, we will see Obama on 1 trillion dollar bill.
It won't be long before the feminzais get Ben Franklin replaced and the vaginafication of society will be complete. The worst thing is seeing how many men are just going along with it. I guess for them the thought that there is a slight chance they'd have some pussy access taken away is more horrible than figuratively losing their manhood.
Den of viper and thieves? Well that's what Jackson put in...not routed out.
How history remember Jackson, and what he actually did are 180 degrees different. Jackson's campaigned, bankrolled by the British, is what destroyed America.
What he did was set the stage for the Federal Reserve. The campaign of '28, which was the dirtiest in history, is what all of ours looks like now. We may be right when we say Bush and Obama are the worst president's ever...but they go up against Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, Truman, and Nixon.
It's really funny Bernanke would say to keep Hamilton over Jackson on the bills. Hamilton was an American System guy unlike the Federal Reserve British Empire System. Jackson was a British agent and again set the stage for a private bank to be our central bank.
In fact, Hamilton was the first to fight the British Empire's money men on Wall Street. In fact his fights led to the creation of Wall Street, in an attempt to end around his sane regulations. Get that? Wall Street was CREATED to circumvent law so they could have their frauds. That's the history of Wall Street...FRAUD FROM THE BEGINNING...courtesy of our once British Masters.
You'd think Berrnanke would welcome Hamilton's departure, afterall it's his ghost via the call for the American Credit System that currently haunts the Federal Reserve and all they do.
You'd think he'd welcome the silencing of Hamilton in the form of removing what for most people is only way Hamilton is in their lives, on the $10 bill. Instead he pushes for the removal of the grandfather of the federal reserve, Jackson.
Once again, like ZH likes to say, isn't it funny what happens when these fraudsters get out of power. Suddenly he isn't a fan of jackson, but rather of hamilton. Interesting.
Do you care to back this up with references? There may be things to not like about Jackson but, to my knowledge, saying he is the grandfather of a fraudulent central bank system (the FED) is way off base. Enlighten me.
(Oh, and Hamilton was a statist, plain and simple. As someone said earlier, Burr did the world a favor when he have him that extra hole at Weehawken.)
Gee BB (aka Edward Quince), thanks for all that useless historical drivel. I just hope that by 2020 I will still be able to buy a stamp and envelope with a $10 bill for my annual letter to the Federal Reserve complaining about all the inflation they have caused over the last 100 years. In it I will note that the gold and/or food Alexander Hamilton could have bought for $10 would now be worth over $500.
One line here caught my attention for a different reason:
"I was in government long enough to know..."
So even the former Fed chairman admits the the Fed is a government agency and NOT a private bank. I'm so tired of people calling the Fed private and arguing that it therefore proves that capitalism has failed and we need more big guv. Anyone can learn more about the Fed from its own website, federalreserve.GOV .
Calling a pig a cow does not change the fact that it is a pig. The Federal Reserve is a Cartel of Banks, using your logic Federal Express would be a government agency because of the name and it does a governmental function, by delivering packages, like the US postal service.
I'm really not interested in mincing words or trivial technicalities. Call it private or not, I don't really care. But the politicians love it and voting for them supports the Federal Reserve. This is as opposed to the nonsensical belief that the Fed was the produced by free-market capitalism and subsequently overpowered the wise and virtuous "government".
FedEx doesn't require an Act of Congress to exist. It's head is not appointed by the pres and approved by the senate. It has no powers that other "private" companies don't have. Quite a big difference from the Fed.
Alfred E Neuman
Said it before.....
Will say it again.....
If we are forced into submission by the self hating PC crowd, sure in the knowledge that all of our unhappiness will be dissipated by having the image of a woman on a piece of fiat US currency, let it be:
Brroksley Born. Brroksley AS CFTC Commissioner warned about the derivatives implosion back in '98. Greenspan (or was it the Bernanke by then), Robert Rubin, Sandy Weil (remember him?) , Mssrs Gramm-Leach-Bliley, etc tried to suicide her. Mssrs Glass and Steagal intervened from beyond the grave.
Do it. Call your Congresspukes today and demand Brooksley on the $20 - keep Hamilton on the $10. Watch how Wall Street reacts. Imagine J6P brooding: "who the F is Brooksley Born?" She did what? I am still paying for derivatives? Dodd Frank has accomplished nothing? Tar and feather the SOBs.
Chance - Great stuff. Is important that Brooksley be remembered and equally the criminals Rubin, Weill, Summers .... Grammj, Leach, Biley were just the bagmen.
Of course Jackson was one of the only Presidents if not the only one to take on the bankers, and not only did he live, he actually beat them. That is worthy of respect in my book.
Thinking the bigger concern would be what is written on the worthless paper. Like U.S. treasury for example.
Ben would like to see Jackson replaced with a picture of a Gutenberg printing press, without which Ben wouldn't have had a job.
Win-Win: Put the woman on a $500 or $1,000 FRN.
To give you a hint about how evil the Fed is, a Jew has always been in charge since the beginning! (Hint: Jews are extemely EVIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!) Of course, the new ZOG plan is to completely do away with cash, period!
Okay, okay I got an idea about the image that could go on the front of all dollars bills.
What the U.S. Treasury could do to raise money is to sell worldwide tickets for a drawing for each dollar bill denomination (i.e., $1, $5, $10, $20, $100) where the winner picked will have their choice of the image on the bill! Is that not a great idea? It could be an annual thing. It'll be great!
We could expand the drawings to include all the political offices in Washington, DC instead of having elections!
What'd ya think? Huh???
The potraits of the whole series of bills should be updated. Representative Court Jews from Wiki are:
Judah Ha Levi Vienveniste circa 1099
Abraham Zacuto (c. 1450 – c. 1510)
Chajim Fürst, (1592–1653)
Samuel Oppenheimer (1635–1703)
Issachar Berend Lehmann; de (1661–1730)
And still living (no need to be dead)
Ben Shalom Bernanke (1953-)
..."I was in government long enough"...
I thought the Federal Reserve was an independent non government entity? If not then their monetary policy is anything but independent or data dependent if that is the case. It is government dependent which brings up interest rates.
The FED will not raise interest rates above a level that causes a Federal Government default on debt interest payments or cause a missed payment on maturing debt.
Any interest rate hikes will be tied to Federal budgetary concerns and nothing else so they have enough money to keep running and not miss a payment. They have to know what the interest rate hike if there is one ahead of time to prepare the budgets for the next fiscal year (Oct. 1st 2015). It has to be tied to revenue income on the worst case scenario of a government shutdown. That is the only data the FED is using to determine an interest rate hike if any because they are an independent and have the best interests of the economy at heart. /sarc
federal reserve BOARD is (fully captured) government. federal reserve banks are private.
Bernanke, Burnanke, Brrrnanke, Beernanke, Boynanke, Bearnanke, Burnbanke, Birnanke, Beananky, Bernacky, Bernbacky, Brokebanke, Brokebacky Mountain .... I'm working on an epic limerick !
I thought for sure this article had to be from the Onion. Frankly, this is too unbelievable for me to not wonder whether this is from the Onion, or an April fools joke!
Hamilton was a Bank of England shill. He pleaded with the other founding fathers to pay bank their debts to England; most notabley because he had purchased many of the bonds for penies on the dollar. Thank you Mr. Burr for whacking him.
Yes, definitely, we need more whacking, lots of it.
Kids love Whack-a-mole; why not adults too?
To whack is to win; that's my motto for the day.