{"id":333151,"date":"2010-02-17T13:04:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T18:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/economics\/2010\/02\/17\/the-onion-finds-bernanke-disavowing-the-entire-concept-of-currency\/"},"modified":"2010-02-17T13:04:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T18:04:55","slug":"the-onion-finds-bernanke-%e2%80%98disavowing-the-entire-concept-of-currency%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/333151","title":{"rendered":"The Onion Finds Bernanke \u2018Disavowing the Entire Concept of Currency\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest issue<\/a> of The Onion<\/strong>, the parody news outlet, offers an item the Ron Paul<\/a> crowd can rally around:<\/p>\n

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WASHINGTON\u0097The U.S. economy ceased to function this week after unexpected existential remarks by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke shocked Americans into realizing that money is, in fact, just a meaningless and intangible social construct.<\/p>\n

What began as a routine report before the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday ended with Bernanke passionately disavowing the entire concept of currency, and negating in an instant the very foundation of the world’s largest economy.<\/p>\n

“Though raising interest rates is unlikely at the moment, the Fed will of course act appropriately if we\u0085if we\u0085” said Bernanke, who then paused for a moment, looked down at his prepared statement, and shook his head in utter disbelief. “You know what? It doesn’t matter. None of this\u0097this so-called ‘money’\u0097really matters at all.”<\/p>\n

“It’s just an illusion,” a wide-eyed Bernanke added as he removed bills from his wallet and slowly spread them out before him. “Just look at it: Meaningless pieces of paper with numbers printed on them. Worthless.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The latest issue of The Onion, the parody news outlet, offers an item the Ron Paul crowd can rally around: WASHINGTON\u0097The U.S. economy ceased to function this week after unexpected existential remarks by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke shocked Americans into realizing that money is, in fact, just a meaningless and intangible social construct. What […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":850,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/850"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}