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posted by janrinok on Saturday June 20 2015, @05:50AM   Printer-friendly
from the banknotes-for-discerning-gentlemen dept.

The US Treasury Department says a redesigned $10 note will feature a woman, but who she will be has not been decided. The new note will debut in 2020 to mark the 100th anniversary of the US Constitution's 19th amendment, which gave women the right to vote. The treasury will seek the public's input in the selection, looking for a "champion for our inclusive democracy".

The woman who the Treasury Department ultimately selects will replace Alexander Hamilton, a key figure in the American Revolution and the first secretary of the US Treasury. Hamilton began appearing on the $10 note in 1929. He along with diplomat and inventor Ben Franklin are the only non-presidents featured on current US notes.

Women have been featured on US money before, but the notes and coins were not widely used. Most recently women's rights activist Susan B Anthony and Native American Sacagawea appeared on dollar coins, but both coins quickly went out circulation.

Who should it be?

Additional coverage: NYtimes.com


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  • (Score: 2, Touché) by CirclesInSand on Saturday June 20 2015, @07:32AM

    by CirclesInSand (2899) on Saturday June 20 2015, @07:32AM (#198571)

    The popular opinion in academic economics and the Federal Reserve is that insurmountable debt and money printing is the road to economic prosperity. Inflation, rising prices, importing rather than local manufacture, 0% interest rates (free money for banks at the cost of anyone with savings), these are all policies that the mouths of the federal reserve advocate without a bit of shame.

    So my idea is to put Janet Yellen's face on the $10 dollar bill. So when we are all using them to buy bread, we'll know who though this was a good idea. Or maybe her face would be better for the $100 bill? Or just create a new $1,000,000 bill and put her face on it, so that when we are using those to buy bread we can appreciate the Keynesians and their "studies" which all tell us that this is good for us.

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  • (Score: 2) by M. Baranczak on Saturday June 20 2015, @06:55PM

    by M. Baranczak (1673) on Saturday June 20 2015, @06:55PM (#198769)
    What inflation?
  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 20 2015, @08:34PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 20 2015, @08:34PM (#198796)

    #1 on Keynes' list was full employment to get the Multiplier Effect working.
    Have you looked around lately at the number of people who don't have a job--and the 20 percent of production capability that is idle?

    The way Keynes advised FDR to get everyone working was to rebuild/build infrastructure.
    Have you see the infrastructure lately?

    So, which "Keynesians" are you talking about?
    It sounds like you're talking about Milton Friedman and the Neoliberals (the "privatize everything" bunch).

    -- gewg_