I miss half-dollars, at least the pre-1965 silver ones. A satisfyingly solid chunk of precious metal in your pocket that could actually buy stuff. But now the dollar is the new dime thanks to generations of government deficit spending, so a modern half-dollar is just an inconvenience.
Prediction: After the trillion-plus deficit starts to percolate into the economy, the gummint will try again (as they have every 10 years or so) to stop minting pennies. This time they might succeed. And then they’ll stop printing 1-dollar bills and America will go down the same path as all the other has-been countries that inflated their currencies into jokes.
I miss half-dollars, at least the pre-1965 silver ones. A satisfyingly solid chunk of precious metal in your pocket that could actually buy stuff. But now the dollar is the new dime thanks to generations of government deficit spending, so a modern half-dollar is just an inconvenience.
Prediction: After the trillion-plus deficit starts to percolate into the economy, the gummint will try again (as they have every 10 years or so) to stop minting pennies. This time they might succeed. And then they’ll stop printing 1-dollar bills and America will go down the same path as all the other has-been countries that inflated their currencies into jokes.