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When is a dollar worth more than a dollar? When the mint goofs. Posted: 1 year ago by hisidea
Some dollar coins lack "In God We Trust." The mint promised it wouldn't happen again, but you know what? It happened again.
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U.S. Gov't to Release New Dollar Coins Posted: 2 years ago by Browntrout
An AP-Ipsos poll found that three-fourths of people surveyed oppose replacing the dollar bill, featuring George Washington, with a dollar coin... so they created another coin we aren't going to want.
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US Mint to release Jefferson dollar coin Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
Most folks can correctly name George Washington as the nation's first president. After that, things get tricky. The U.S. Mint is hoping its new dollar coin series will help refresh some hazy memories of Adams, Jefferson and all the rest.
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'Godless' Dollar Posted: 1 year ago by punthe
Dollar Coins Missing 'In God We Trust'.
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The US Now Has a New Dollar Posted: 2 years ago by julea
So, you know that Dollar coin that 3/4 of voters opposed?
Yeah, it's in mint now. But we still have the paper one too.
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Man pummeled with baseball bat for refusing to fork over $1 Posted: 5 months ago by coldbladed
If a random dude with a baseball bat asks for a dollar, just run...
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Strong dollar sends big-spending Canadians across border Posted: 1 year ago by makri
"Our greatest challenge — and it's been years and years since we've experienced this — is having enough beer on stock for the trip for the Canadian sports fans — they do consume more than their American counterparts,"
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What does 315 Billion Dollars really look like? Posted: 8 months ago by bandit
We hear dollar figures thrown out about the cost of things every day.
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A million dollar Post-it to euthanize Modern Art Posted: 1 year ago by tribulete
An ordinary guy (not an artist) who signs as ‘G’, worried because art it’s since many decades ago a big fraud, has decided to put an end to Modern Art by creating the Ultimate Art Fraud: a Post-it that he is selling in eBay for a million dollars (or more!).
G thinks that Modern Art is nowadays like a comatose patient kept alive artificially by a bunch of speculators and thefts (“artists”, critics, art dealers, gallery owners...) that want to keep living off it without any effort, repeating the same ideas (supposedly avant-gardist) over and over.
G wants to euthanize Modern Art. Inspired by Cervantes (who put an end to the ridiculous knight-errant books of his time by writing a knight-errant book even more ridiculous, crazy and absurd), he wants to put an end to Modern Art frauds making an even bigger fraud!
In his web page (www.theendofmodernart.com) he explains how the sale of his work “The End Of “Modern Art”” for a million dollars will put an end to Modern Art or, at least, generate a very necessary debate that will help to stop art frauds.
“The End Of “Modern Art”” is for sale on eBay (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170108024366), to avoid gallery owners and art dealers, who are not interested in killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. If G’s plans are successful, Modern Art will die just to make way to a Timeless Art, inspiring, enriching and, above all, original.
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Zimbabwe To Issue 100 Billion Dollar Note Posted: 1 month ago by pocksucket
The official inflation rate in Zimbabwe is running at 2,200,000%. In response to what this means to the prices of standard goods on shelves the Zimbabwean Treasury has announced they will be printing a one billion dollar bill.
This would probably buy two loaves of bread.
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Iran Asks Japan to Pay Yen for Oil, Start Immediately Posted: 1 year ago by deepchill
"Iran asked Japanese refiners to switch to the yen to pay for all crude oil purchases, after Iran's central bank said it's cutting holdings of the U.S. dollar."
Goes hand in hand with plummeting dollar value.
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 35 [+].
Hemingway haunt gives discounts to "poor Americans" Posted: 5 months ago by buddha
Harry's Bar, the famed Venice watering hole where Ernest Hemingway held court over hearty food and stiff martinis, is offering a discount to "poor" Americans suffering from a weak dollar and subprime blues.
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The Further Decline of the Dollar Posted: 6 months ago by xenity7
Some stores in New York have begun accepting euros - it's the beginning of the end.
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Creature clones itself to avoid becoming fish food Posted: 5 months ago by 2manyusernames
In order to increase the odds of survival, sand dollar larvae will create clones of themselves when they sense fish, their main predator, are nearby
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Smuggling Exotic Pets Is $10 Billion Dollar Industry Second To Drugs Posted: 11 months ago by 1krazykorean
Researchers estimate that millions of pets, animal parts and meats are covertly smuggled across the border totaling a $10 billion industry, second only to illegal drugs.
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An American life worth less today Posted: 1 month ago by KeroBeros32
It's not just the American dollar that's losing value. A government agency has decided that an American life isn't worth what it used to be.
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Man Pays for New Truck Using $25,000 in Loose Change Posted: 8 months ago by mandolinorange
Paul Brant considers himself a penny pincher, but his savings in quarters and dollar coins really paid off.
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Last Minute Auctions Posted: 5 months ago by 2manyusernames
A listing of eBay auctions of less than a dollar and with mere minutes, sometimes just 1 minute left before bidding ends, no more than a hour. Possible to get some deals but beware of s&h fees.
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When 100 Cents is Worth More than $1 Dollar Posted: 2 months ago by murrayrothbard
The dollar has been devalued to such an extent that a penny — as in one hundredth of a dollar — can only buy a fraction of the metal needed to make a physical penny. Each coin takes significantly more than one cent to produce.
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Heads or Tails? Posted: 1 year ago by sholom22
Mary and Ray Smith can't make heads or tails of a new presidential dollar coin they found last week. It doesn't have either.
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