Debasing & Defacing the Dollar
By Barry Ritholtz - February 27th, 2010, 12:00PM
Heh heh: Not what you Dollar Bears thought!
These are a half dozen of my favorites from 30 Bizarre Examples of Defacing Money from the aptly named site, MONEY MUMBO JUMBO:
Sparta!
iPod
Head shot
Alice in Wonderland
Moth Eaten:
And even though I was never a big Kiss fan, this one still tickles me:
Kiss
Source: Money Mumbo Jumbo
Hat tip boingboing
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UPDATE:
One last bill from this flickr pool:
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February 27th, 2010 at 12:48 pm
One bill at Money Mumbo Jumbo is for the dollar bears – The Tulip Dollar.
February 27th, 2010 at 1:04 pm
here’s the rest of em in a slideshow from flickr
http://solanic.com/wordpress/2010/02/25/money-worth-absolutely-nothin/
best use of a bill eh ?
February 27th, 2010 at 1:50 pm
The boomlet to honor Reagan on the $10 note seems to have mercifully run its course:
http://nothing-is-inevitable.atspace.com/reagan/reagan.html
February 27th, 2010 at 2:30 pm
My favorite is the “KISS face painting.”
This is an “dollar debasing” that Ron Paul and I would enjoy.
I was listening to an old episode of “This American Life” titled “Trail of Tears,” and I learned that President Andrew Jackson was single-handedly responsible for “relocating” the native Americans from Georgia to Oklahoma, resulting in death of countless Cherokee. You learn something every day…
February 27th, 2010 at 3:00 pm
whenever I see these defaced Notes, I wonder if ‘Author’ is, also, using the *Serial Number as part of the device..
as, in the “Sparta!”-one, ICA (I See America)
“Lincoln Head-shot”, FUA
for examples..
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panchdog,
that aspect of Jackson’s Presidency is one of the favorites of FedRes/Central Bank apologists..
oft used, in a non sequitur, in effort to impeach his position on, and subsequent success in, closing our second Central Bank..
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/non%20sequitur
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“…President Andrew Jackson of Tennessee was the 7th President of the United States. Jackson’s efforts to shut down the central bank were believed to have resulted in an attempt on his life. After he recovered from the assassination attempt, Jackson redoubled his efforts to shut down the central bank and was successful.
From Wikipedia:
The Second Bank of the United States was authorized for a twenty year period during James Madison’s tenure in 1816. As President, Jackson worked to rescind the bank’s federal charter. In Jackson’s veto message the bank needed to be abolished because:
It concentrated the nation’s financial strength in a single institution.
It exposed the government to control by foreign interests.
It served mainly to make the rich richer.
It exercised too much control over members of Congress.
It favored northeastern states over southern and western states.
Following Jefferson, Jackson supported an “agricultural republic” and felt the Bank improved the fortunes of an “elite circle” of commercial and industrial entrepreneurs at the expense of farmers and laborers. After a titanic struggle, Jackson succeeded in destroying the Bank by vetoing its 1832 re-charter by Congress and by withdrawing U.S. funds in 1833…”
http://solari.com/blog/?p=1698
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in similiar fashion, it’s one of the reasons that the, supposed, Jefferson/Hemmings affair gain such amplification..
http://www.badlandsjournal.com/2009-01-08/007037
as well, don’t forget about Lincoln, Garfield, and JFK..
February 27th, 2010 at 3:05 pm
No this isn’t the long awaited Pee-Three Elliot Wave.
The link below will take you to Hilo Bay Web Cam located on top of the Pacific Tsunami Museum. The think tank boys are predicting maybe 12 to 15 foot waves in Hilo bay. If you don’t get images right away, hang tight it may just take awhile. The site says you may need to install AxisCam control if you use IE, it is silent on Firefox.
Bays act as amplifiers for long waves like Tsnamis. Hilo was bodyslammed by a large Tsunami in 1946.
Note that the Haiti earthquake happened right on the eclipse which was a no moon.
The current Chile and Japan Earthquakes happened on the approaching full moon.
This is a push me/pull me affect of the large gravitational pull of the moon as it lines up with the sun.
Affects on the markets? Moons have been particularly accurate predictions of turning points this year, although direction is not “known”. Massive earthquakes are not a good sign though, for the collective pysche in the current “Mass Global Pychosis” as Daneric has so nicely coined.
Most events in Hawaii have been cancelled, shorelines are being evacuated. People are filling up their gas tanks and water jugs. Just in case.
I’ll post some still photos from Kunia Oahu, about 400 feet up, safe viewing of the ocean off Oahu. It’s about 8:30AM local time, tsunami expected starting 11:00AM or a little later, and maybe waves coming for several hours.
http://oahutrading.blogspot.com/2010/02/tsunami-in-hawaii.html
February 27th, 2010 at 3:45 pm
O, the iPod one, CE, Consumer Electronics..
February 27th, 2010 at 7:37 pm
BR:
The Lincoln one is in poor taste, IMO.
Bob
February 27th, 2010 at 7:59 pm
Too soon?
February 27th, 2010 at 8:32 pm
BR…Cool!
But, you do understand that with this post…which is “Too Much Funny” you are giving incentives to the “Gold Bugs!”
AYYYYYY Why are you doing that?
Yeah…I know,…it was just a fun post.. I get it…Just had to do a SNARK! :D
February 27th, 2010 at 8:55 pm
That Canadian Ronald McDonald $20 is well done. And that American Museum Dollar would probably look pretty good under a blacklight…
February 27th, 2010 at 10:11 pm
Too soon?
Very funny!!!
February 27th, 2010 at 10:55 pm
hatterdude Says:
February 27th, 2010 at 7:37 pm
BR:
The Lincoln one is in poor taste, IMO.
I agree. Imagine if someone made the same image but with Obama on the bill?
February 27th, 2010 at 11:11 pm
@foxmuldar
Societies sense of outrage is a curious beast, if it were Bush, Greenspan, Bernanke, Summers, Geithner or Blankfein nobody would raise an eyebrow.
February 28th, 2010 at 8:15 am
foxmuldar:
Modifying a dead President who is already on a bill who was assassinated a century and a half ago is modestly tasteless but amusing.
Depicting a living President — Bush I, Clinton, Bush 2, Obama — as being assassinated is not only not funny, but extremely tasteless. It might also get you a visit from the secret service.
Its subtle line . . . but hey, Humor is in the eye of the beholder.
February 28th, 2010 at 10:10 am
I’m well aware of what happens when someone makes any threats or comments about the President. And I agree with those that feel a bill with Bush or Cheyney would get a lot of cheers from many on the left. I never said it would be proper to have a bill with Obama on the bill, I was just pointing out that it was tasteless for Lincoln who was instrumental in freeing the slaves, pictured on such a bill.
But heck, Obama had Mao christmas ornaments hanging on his christmas tree. Only a few like Glenn Beck were willing to question why Mao would be seen in the White House, even if it was only on an ornament.
February 28th, 2010 at 7:27 pm
@BR “Too soon?” comment was precious.
The best comeback of this year so far, on this blog, IMHO.
March 2nd, 2010 at 3:53 pm
The “Head shot” is easily the most witless & juvenile thing I’ve seen on this blog in the two years I’ve been reading it.
Who’ve you lined up next as the butt of such “modestly tasteless but amusing” entertainments . . . the Virgin Mary?
What? “Too soon?”
And this from a guy who recently got into a lover’s spat with the WSJ and saw fit to chastize them for their editorial choices:
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/01/wsj-jumps-the-shark/
‘Its subtle, eye of the beholder, . . . so on & so forth….’
Your stock is falling.