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"By the end of the Civil War, nearly one-third of all currency in circulation was counterfeit. As a result, the country's financial stability was in jeopardy. To address this concern, the Secret Service was established in 1865 as a bureau in the Treasury Department to suppress widespread counterfeiting."

"...So he produced a bigger batch of bogus bills and advertised them nationally in leading publications such as Harper’s Weekly. He dutifully printed “Facsimile Confederate Note — Sold wholesale and retail by S.C. Upham 403 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia” on the bottom of each copy.

Again, they sold like the proverbial hotcakes."

https://www.myjournalcourier.com/insider/article/Holy-cow-History-The-man-who-conned-the-16516968.php

1 posted on 06/21/2024 12:15:15 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Our government — with enough plausible deniability — should be mass counterfeiting Chinese yuan. Flood their country so their currency is totally worthless.


2 posted on 06/21/2024 12:16:27 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

The Russian Great Depression projection perhaps.


3 posted on 06/21/2024 12:16:56 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

When I was in Russia in 195, funny money was a problem even back then.


4 posted on 06/21/2024 12:20:59 PM PDT by ASOC (This space for rent)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

The North Koreans have been printing U.S. currency for decades. The newer anti-counterfeiting seems to have addressed the problem. Any nation state has the capability to do this so Ukraine’s counterfeiting of the Russian ruble will be answered in kind.


5 posted on 06/21/2024 12:22:28 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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Why not?

The US government is printing billions of counterfeit US dollars.


6 posted on 06/21/2024 12:22:59 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Counterfeiting used to be a capitol offense in US...............


8 posted on 06/21/2024 12:31:40 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

How about the United States destabalize the EU by cutting off cheap energy throwing them into a near depression; then sanctioning the NATO Bloc into isolation on Brics nation at a time....

Biden is printing 1T a month now. How could you have missed that? For the first three years he printed 1T every 3-months and you missed that too.

The DNC are the enemy of mankind.


12 posted on 06/21/2024 2:00:04 PM PDT by Jumper
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Economies are exponentially larger now, and paper currency is a rather insignificant part of most. This wouldn’t do much anymore.


13 posted on 06/21/2024 2:03:35 PM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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Depression = An economic depression is a steep and sustained drop in economic activity featuring high unemployment and negative GDP growth.

Reality:

ST. PETERSBURG, June 5. /TASS/. The growth rate of the Russian economy stood at 5.4% in the first quarter of this year, President Vladimir Putin said at the meeting with heads of international news agencies organized by TASS.

"In the first quarter of this year, Russian economic growth totaled 5.4%," the head of state said.

Russia will invest resources in its technological independence, the President noted.

"Niches taken by our producers and further steps to develop niches left by Western producers, and growth on that basis nevertheless have certain constraints," Putin said.

"We understand this and the technological independence is one of main goals among our development goals, strategic targets we set for ourselves," he added.

14 posted on 06/21/2024 2:51:45 PM PDT by Kazan
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Because they dont have enough tractor trailers to get the rubles to market. Those things are worthless.


16 posted on 06/21/2024 3:39:08 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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Just watched that earlier todau, seen a few of his videos, good but tends to repeat himself a lot
“I’m not saying to do this….”, but here are the reasons you should lol


18 posted on 06/21/2024 6:03:16 PM PDT by blitz128
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Just watched that earlier today , seen a few of his videos, good but tends to repeat himself a lot
“I’m not saying to do this….”, but here are the reasons you should lol


19 posted on 06/21/2024 6:03:31 PM PDT by blitz128
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