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greenbackism

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English

Etymology

From greenback + -ism.

Noun

greenbackism (uncountable)

  1. A movement advocating for the inflation of the US currency.
    • 1930, Irving Fisher, The Theory of Interest: As Determined by Impatience to Spend Income and Opportunity to Invest It, New York: The MacMillan Company, page 401:
      After resumption in 1879, when paper money did reach par with gold, the two bond rates remained very nearly equal for several years, until fears of inflation from Greenbackism and Free-Silverism again produced a divergence.
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