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In a period of "loss of referentials" (gold standard, traditions, etc.) and "widespread flotation" of signs, beings and things, the conspirationnist interpretations seeing the ""mark of the Beast"" in the symbolism adorning the one-dollar bill seem to awaken, by means of extrapolation, old demons of vice that were in many past eras linked to money. Also, early on (since Sophocle, Aristote, etc.) negative qualities attached to money, weighted with a corruptive, vicious and seductive potentiality, for various theological and sociological reasons, will be gradually and long-lastingly associated with the Jewish people in the imagination of Christianized European populations. All those things that tickle the collective unconscious could not fail to reappear in periods of economic crisis due to financial speculation supposedly under the control of the “haute banque”.