Speaking several times on the matter, Blaine said that the greenbacks had only ever been an emergency measure to avoid bankruptcy during the war.
While European currencies are teetering just a little below their last year's level (the greenback will only go 5% further than it did last year), the price of oil has practically halved, making your travel fund go a lot further.
Not only is this bolstering the greenback, but it's also taking a toll on gold, leaving Fresnillo and Randgold Resources languishing towards the foot of the index.
Not only is the annual red ink greater for those of us who use the greenback but it looks equally unfavorable in terms of aggregate gross national debt.
Until the government begins to be up front about what's going on in the economy, and adjust its variables accordingly, Argentines will continue to see the greenback as the only way to protect whatever money they might have left over at the end of the month.
Only the government can get greenbacks at the official rate, and only by using force.
But the greenback is not the only currency that counts.
Carothers pointed out that exchanging the copper-nickel pieces for cents violated the 1865 and 1866 acts, that stated the three-cent piece and nickel could not be purchased with cents, but only for greenback or specie.
The original Kingston Trio--Bob Shane, Dave Guard and Nick Reynolds--rose to fame in the late 1950s with such folk ballads as "Tom Dooley," "Scotch and Soda," "MTA" and "Greenback Dollar". Shane, the only original member still with the trio, started a comeback in the late 1970s, adding Gambill and George Grove.
While surveying the genetics of the greenback trout, they discovered that only four populations actually consisted of greenback trout.
Greenbacks were definitely few and far between, but farm people are nothing if not resourceful.
