On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 17:19:42 -0500
Ed Pawlowski wrote:

Ice cream is now 1 1/2 quarts, plywood is about 1/16" under.


One of the kings of yore decided they should collect all gold coins
in circulation and they did so over time. But later people discovered
that the coins had had some gold shaved off of them at the king's
request. it didn't go over well and was considered bad policy

now they just print more $$ when needed plus pay no interest to us
and charge us interest to borrow