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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 1442060, member: 4381&quot;]<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/04/29/exhibit-considers-the-politics-and-art-of-inflation.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/04/29/exhibit-considers-the-politics-and-art-of-inflation.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/04/29/exhibit-considers-the-politics-and-art-of-inflation.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[h=1]The Value of Worthless Money[/h]&nbsp; &nbsp; Apr 30, 2012 1:00 AM EDT&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; [h=2]An exhibit considers the politics and art of inflation.[/h]&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><ul> <li><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/04/29/exhibit-considers-the-politics-and-art-of-inflation.print.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/04/29/exhibit-considers-the-politics-and-art-of-inflation.print.html" rel="nofollow">Print</a></li> <li>Email</li> <li><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/04/29/exhibit-considers-the-politics-and-art-of-inflation.html#comments" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/04/29/exhibit-considers-the-politics-and-art-of-inflation.html#comments" rel="nofollow">Comments (5)</a></li> <li></li> <li></li> <li></li> </ul><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <img src="http://cdn.thedailybeast.com/content/newsweek/2012/04/29/exhibit-considers-the-politics-and-art-of-inflation/_jcr_content/body/inlineimage.img.503.jpg/1335657711945.cached.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />&nbsp;&nbsp; The Zimbabwean 100-trillion dollar banknote has become a&nbsp; collectible. (Courtesy of Francois Velde and the American Numismatic&nbsp; Society, NYC)</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; The worse a nation’s economy, the more inflated its currency.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;That’s one of the takeaways from <i>Signs of Inflation</i>,&nbsp; a new exhibition at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The show,&nbsp; presented by the American Numismatic Society, looks at the history of&nbsp; inflation through the 7th century B.C. to present day. (Yes, even&nbsp; Ancient Rome experienced inflation—it needed to finance those wars.) <i>Signs of Inflation</i>&nbsp; includes almost 200 monetary objects, ranging from engraved gold coins&nbsp; and cowrie shells to twisted iron rods and handwritten IOUs. But it also&nbsp; demonstrates the myriad, complex ways a bank note—or coin, shell, or&nbsp; what have you—reveals a society’s political and economic health. And it&nbsp; does so through treating money as partly an objet d’art.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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