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The only big effect was to get people out of the cars they owned and into cars they didn’t own, requiring monthly payments! People who had had no auto debt now saw themselves indentured for four years

Our material lives have been taken over…clandestinely subjugated to strange and unnatural money. And now, we all depend on it.

We interrupt our romp through the funny money world…exploring the link between crooked money and crooked behavior…to give thanks for the whole funny money system.

Fake money seems to bring out the worst in people. Like the village prostitute, it is available to all…but cherished by none…and ultimately abused and depreciated.

The whole idea was to get money into the economy…so it could be spent. The fraudsters were just doing the jackasses in Washington a favor.

The trouble with history is that it is unforgiving. Like double entry bookkeeping, for every credit, there’s a debit. Attached to every rise is a fall. You can’t get one without the other.