The power of the dollar we will be discussing what it is in two dimensions. The power of the dollar as an unreleased American rapper album as well as the purchasing power of the dollar in financial terms, closely considering it changes over the years.
Firstly, the American rapper 50 cent unreleased debut studio album was called “power of the dollar”. Originally set to be released in 2000 as his major-label debut by Columbia Records, but somehow got cancelled after Columbia discovered the horrible incident that the rapper was struck in a shooting up to nine bullets. One that took place barely two months before the album was set to release.
After the shooting, Columbia dropped 50 Cent from the label. Subsequently, the album could not be released as planned, Columbia was said to have no plans of releasing the album.
Details of The Power of the Dollar Unreleased Album Include:
Studio album by 50 Cent Recorded 1998–2000
Studio: (Bearsville Studios, Bearsville, New York)
Genre: East Coast hip hopgangsta rap Underground hip hop
Length: 63:01
Label: Trackmasters Ent.Columbia
Producer: 50 Cent, Cory, Rooney, Trackmasters, Al WestBrian Kierulf. DJ Scratch Erick Sermon
50 Cent chronology
Power of the Dollar
(2000)
The Power of The Dollar
The United States purchasing power of the U.S. dollar has fallen over time, in the account of money supply growth and regulation. Comparisons of 1913 shows that, $1 then had the same purchasing power that $28 have in 2022.
What Is The Purchasing Power Of The Dollar?
To fully appreciate this article we must understand the basic concepts such as purchasing power. The purchasing power of any currency refer to the amount of goods and services that can be bought or handled with one unit of that currency.
For example, if $1 could buy pay for a child’s tuition years ago. Today, it’s the cost of a small coffee. Which means that, the purchasing power of the U.S dollar and value in terms of what it can buy, has decreased over the stretch of years, as price levels have increased.
Tracking the Purchasing Power of the Dollar:
In 1913, the Federal Reserve Act granted Federal Reserve banks the ability to manage the money supply in order to ensure economic stability. But, as more dollars came into circulation, the average prices of goods and services increased while there was a fall in the purchasing power of the dollar and by 1929, the value of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was 73% higher than, it was in 1913, and in 2020 it could only afford a small cup of coffee.
Year Event Purchasing Power of What a US Dollar Buys excerpt from Visual Capitalist are as follows:
1913 Creation of the Federal Reserve System $26.14 30 Hershey’s chocolate bars
1929 Stock market crash $15.14 10 rolls of toilet paper
1933 Gold possession criminalized $19.91 10 bottles of beer
1944 Bretton Woods agreement $14.71 20 bottles of Coca-Cola
1953 End of the Korean War $9.69 10 bags of pretzels
1964 Escalation of the Vietnam War $8.35 1 drive-in movie ticket
1971 End of the gold standard $6.39 17 oranges
1987 “Black Monday” stock market crash $2.28 2 boxes of crayons
1997 Asian financial crisis $1.61 4 grapefruits
2008 Global Financial crisis $1.20 2 lemons
2020 COVID-19 pandemic $1.00 1 McDonald’s coffee
Between 1929-1933, the purchasing power of the dollar actually increased due to deflation and a 31% contraction in money supply before eventually declining again. Fast forward to 1944 and the U.S. dollar, fixed to gold at a rate of $35/oz, became the world’s reserve currency under the Bretton Woods agreement.
Conclusion
More dollars circulation in the U.S System
has skyrocketed money supply over in the last 20 years decades, up from $4.6 trillion in 2000 to a whopping $19.5 trillion in 2021. The coronavirus pandemic had made a major creating about 20% of the money supply in 2020 alone, leaving a great impact in this amplification in 2020 at about $3.4 trillion, after the financial crisis recorded by the U.S in 2008.
