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U.S. Unveils New $100 Bill
Wall Street Journal ^ | April | DARRELL A. HUGHES

Posted on 04/21/2010 9:00:11 AM PDT by Thurston_Howell_III

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To: Thurston_Howell_III

If Tim Geitner’s signature is on it, it won’t be worth any where near $100.


21 posted on 04/21/2010 9:12:41 AM PDT by kevinm13 (Tim Geithner is a tax cheat. Manmade "Global Warming" is a HOAX!)
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To: Sacajaweau
Yeah, not to worry...the Norks are working on it as we speak.
22 posted on 04/21/2010 9:12:47 AM PDT by JPG (Mr. Gore, we have a warrant for your arrest...put your hands behind your back.)
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To: Thurston_Howell_III

New C-Note...It is worth 50 bucks.


23 posted on 04/21/2010 9:16:07 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (i)
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To: MHGinTN

The last time the treasury rolled out “new money”, you know the 10’s, 20’s 50’s and 100’s, the reason was because it would be more difficult to counterfeit these new bills.
Within weeks, there was a story out about these new bills were now much easier to counterfeit and warnings about bogus 100’s that were out there.

Your government at work.


24 posted on 04/21/2010 9:16:13 AM PDT by Texas resident (Outlaw fisherman)
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To: Thurston_Howell_III

Once hyper inflation causes them to outlaw gold ownership again we’re going to have to carry these around instead.

Yes, but they’re going to cost you $200;)


25 posted on 04/21/2010 9:17:00 AM PDT by Bitsy
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To: Thurston_Howell_III; Slings and Arrows; martin_fierro; potlatch; Allegra; devolve; Lucky9teen; ...

What’s that chamber pot doing on the $100 bill?


26 posted on 04/21/2010 9:17:24 AM PDT by Lady Jag (Double your income... Fire the government)
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To: Beelzebubba

The bill should change numbers with time release printing. After 6 months it changes to 1,000 12 months 10,000 etc. We could save on printing costs.


27 posted on 04/21/2010 9:19:16 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (i)
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To: perfect_rovian_storm

I have the full set: 100 billion, 1 trillion, 50 trillion, and 100 trillion. And I keep a 500 million dollar note in my wallet, it’s a great conversation piece!


28 posted on 04/21/2010 9:21:00 AM PDT by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the Sting of Truth is the defense of the indefensible)
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To: Lady Jag
What’s that chamber pot doing on the $100 bill?

It is there to demonstrate exactly where our economy is headed.

29 posted on 04/21/2010 9:22:27 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: Thurston_Howell_III

It will have Obama’s Islamic crescent like
everything else in America now.


30 posted on 04/21/2010 9:22:41 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Article IV - Section 4 - The United States Â… shall protect each of them against Invasion)
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To: Thurston_Howell_III

Darn Iranians...


31 posted on 04/21/2010 9:23:36 AM PDT by El Sordo (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.)
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To: Willie Green; mrmeyer

LOLOL!!


32 posted on 04/21/2010 9:24:35 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Beelzebubba
and that cash registers have been “rounding” (without bias up or down) to the nearest small coin for sales tax purposes for generations.

What state do you live in? Every sales tax I've seen rounds up. My local 7% sales tax is 7¢ for a $1 purchase, but is 8¢ for a $1.01 purchase.

Other than that I generally like the idea. There's no real reason to change the size of the dime from the current one. The old 1:2.5:5 ratio of the weights of the dime, quarter and half dollar (and up to 10 for the old Eisenhower dollar coin) are a left over from when the coins were made of silver so the weight had to be proportional to face value, so there is no real reason to hold on to them. You might want to play with the edges so the coins are easy to identify by feel.

The best description of how to set the coin/bill break is that lunch should be purchased with a couple of coins. That sets the top coin value at $5 with bills starting at $10. Don't overlap the top coin and bottom bill or else one or the other will be generally unused, like our current dollar coins.

33 posted on 04/21/2010 9:24:40 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Obamacare: The 2010 version of the Intolerable Acts.)
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To: Thurston_Howell_III




34 posted on 04/21/2010 9:24:53 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Liberals love the poor so much they came up w/ a plan to create millions more of them. - Ann Coulter)
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To: Thurston_Howell_III

Given that the Fed seem to have adopted a policy of inflating the money supply as fast as is humanly possible, I don’t see why they don’t simply suspend the laws against counterfeiting, and allow everyone to print off their own currency.

My guess is it will be just as valuable as what the Fed has been printing, if we keep doing what we are doing for another year or so.


35 posted on 04/21/2010 9:28:31 AM PDT by jdege
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To: Lady Jag
What’s that chamber pot doing on the $100 bill?

Waiting for Ubumbu The Magnificent (PBUH) to give another speech and refill it.

36 posted on 04/21/2010 9:29:13 AM PDT by Gorzaloon (GET him AWAY from the CAMERA!! They are all figuring it out!!!)
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To: Willie Green

Maybe they removed the owl?


37 posted on 04/21/2010 9:29:58 AM PDT by edcoil (If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
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To: GeronL
weird

"Weird" is right...

I just tried looking for a simple picture of the new bill, showing both the front and the back.
Being a fairly normal person, I naturally thought that the best place to look would be the Bureau of Printing and Engraving website where they actually come up with new designs for our money...

WRONG....

Cripes... all they have there is some WEIRD computer animation showing the new $100 twisting and undulating in some kind of semi-pornographic rhythm.

All I could think of was that some overpaid goobermint webdesigner must think he's gonna win some kind of Oscar or Emmy for his "artistic" efforts.

But I swear... I STILL don't have a good idea what the damn thing actually looks like. LOL!

38 posted on 04/21/2010 9:33:49 AM PDT by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: Willie Green

But at least you get to use the word “undulating”


39 posted on 04/21/2010 9:35:07 AM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com << Get your science fiction and fiction test marketed)
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To: Willie Green

still images are “unavailable”

the website crashed?


40 posted on 04/21/2010 9:35:51 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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