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Mr. Monopoly to Replace Benjamin Franklin On $100 Bill
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diff --git a/wiki/news/mr-monopoly-to-replace-benjamin-franklin.md b/wiki/news/mr-monopoly-to-replace-benjamin-franklin.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..17d69ab8 @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +--- +title: Mr. Monopoly to Replace Benjamin Franklin On $100 Bill +type: news +status: confirmed +date: 2023-01-30 +author: Richard Greaser +image: "https://storage.ghost.io/c/2b/78/2b7819dd-fa09-4afb-83f8-6f9e5bcc69fd/content/images/size/w1200/2023/01/Copy-of-Add-a-little-bit-of-body-text--5-.png" +sourceUrl: "https://www.bugle.news/mr-monopoly-to-replace-benjamin-franklin/" +sources: + - raw/news/mr-monopoly-to-replace-benjamin-franklin.json +--- + +Treasury Secretary [[characters/janet-yellen|Janet Yellen]] announced a joint marketing campaign between Hasbro and the Treasury Department at a Sunday press conference in Washington: [[characters/mr-monopoly|Mr. Monopoly]] will replace Benjamin Franklin on the $100 bill. "We need to come up with new and creative ways to engage the youth in using the dollar to prevent them from becoming interested in cryptocurrencies," Yellen explained. + +The Secretary's qualifications were vouched for by her mother: "This is a great move. Janet learned everything she knows about money from playing Monopoly with me as a kid. Monopoly teaches individuals real life lessons." + +Federal Reserve Chair [[characters/jerome-powell|Jerome Powell]] saw a different upside, adding, "Very few people actually use the paper money anymore. This seems like a really good way to transition to CBDC's." + +The new $100 bill begins circulating in June 2024. Hasbro is rumored to be working with the World Economic Forum to develop new designs for other state currencies. + +The campaign is the second documented beat of [[storylines/defense-of-the-dollar|the defense of the dollar]], following the arrest of [[characters/g-edward-griffin|G. Edward Griffin]] four days earlier. + +> irl: Fabricated. No Hasbro–Treasury partnership exists; the Yellen and Powell quotes are invented. The joke — the dollar rebranding itself with the board-game mascot of monopoly money, while the Fed chair openly treats it as a CBDC on-ramp — writes itself. The article spells the company both "Hasboro" and "Hasbro"; the wiki standardizes on Hasbro.