Penny’s Funeral: How Easy Money Broke the Dollar

Penny’s Funeral: How Easy Money Broke the Dollar | Headline USA

(Money Metals News Service) In this week’s episode of Money Metals’ Midweek Memo podcast, host Mike Maharrey argues that decades of artificially low interest rates and nearly $9 trillion in quantitative easing, combined with 713% CPI inflation since 1970, have warped investors’ sense of what is “normal.” He says these policies have produced a debt-addicted bubble economy and destroyed the real value of small denominations like the now-dead penny…

Penny’s Funeral: How Easy Money Broke the Dollar

Penny’s Funeral: How Easy Money Broke the Dollar Throughout the episode, Maharrey returns to a simple conclusion. When money is untethered from anything tangible, depreciation is as certain as death and taxes. MoneyMetals Thu, 11/20/2025

Penny’s Funeral: How Easy Money Broke the Dollar

Penny’s Funeral: How Easy Money Broke the Dollar Throughout the episode, Maharrey returns to a simple conclusion. When money is untethered from anything tangible, depreciation is as certain as death and taxes. MoneyMetals Thu, 11/20/2025