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Ben Bernanke ‘appalled’ at Alexander Hamilton’s $10 demotion
“Appalled” is one word Ben Bernanke would use to describe his reaction to last week’s decision to relegate Alexander Hamilton from his spot on the $10 bill. In a post published on his Brookings Institution blog, the former Federal Reserve chairman excoriated Treasury Secretary Jack Lew’s decision to “demote” the...
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I personally don't see why they didn't just adopt the idea of running a limited edition series of bills that would change up the faces much like the quarter program to change the back every so often until all states had one and now national parks too. Then you could celebrate national heroes on them on a regular basis and still maintain the original bills.
Yea, I would agree with that. I can definitely see where ol Ben is coming from. I would've opted to remove Jackson over Hamilton.