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Bernanke wants Andrew Jackson gone from $20 bill

The former Fed chairman thinks Alexander Hamilton should stay put on the $10 bill.

Currency wars are being waged in the Treasury Department. 

Secretary Jacob Lew has plans to take Alexander Hamilton off the $10 bill and replace him with a woman.

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke weighed in today and said he’s appalled by Lew’s proposal to drop a man Bernanke calls “the best…economic policymaker in U.S. history.”

Far better: Bernanke goes on to suggest that a woman should replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. 

Me?

I’m with Ben.

 

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