While I am on the subject of the currency, I shall offer one remark which will appear true to everybody, and can be accounted for by nobody, which is, that the better the times were, the worse the money grew; and the worse the times were, the better the money stood.
From "The American Crisis," Paine observes a paradox in the value of currency during the war, noting its inverse relationship with the general state of affairs.
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