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« on: December 06, 2010, 03:43:44 PM »

As a metaphor for our troubled economic and financial era -- and the government's stumbling response -- this one's hard to beat. You can't stimulate the economy via the money supply, after all, if you can't print the money correctly.

Because of a problem with the presses, the federal government has shut down production of its flashy new $100 bills, and has quarantined more than 1 billion of them -- more than 10 percent of all existing U.S. cash -- in a vault in Fort Worth, Texas, reports CNBC.

"There is something drastically wrong here," one source told CNBC. "The frustration level is off the charts."

Officials with the Treasury and the Federal Reserve had touted the new bills' sophisticated security features that were 10 years in the making, including a 3-D security strip and a color-shifting image of a bell, designed to foil counterfeiters. But it turns out the bills are so high-tech that the presses can't handle the printing job.


More than 1 billion unusable bills have been printed. Some of the bills creased during production, creating a blank space on the paper, one official told CNBC. Because correctly printed bills are mixed in with the flawed ones, even the ones printed to the correct design specs can't be used until they 're sorted. It would take an estimated 20 to 30 years to weed out the defective bills by hand, but a mechanized system is expected to get the job done in about a year.

Combined, the quarantined bills add up to $110 billion -- more than 10 percent of the entire U.S. cash supply, which now stands at around $930 billion.

The flawed bills, which cost around $120 million to print, will have to burned.

The new bills are the first to include Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's signature.  In order to prevent a shortfall,the government has ordered production of the old design, which includes the signature of Bush administration Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. That, surely, is not the only respect in which the nation's lead economic officials would like to turn back the clock to sometime before the 2008 financial crisis.

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« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2010, 05:29:01 PM »

...economic officials would like to turn back the clock to sometime before the 2008 financial crisis.

Which in turn brings up a question my mind - In layman's terms, what caused it?
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« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2010, 05:29:28 PM »

Very interesting article, Jay.
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« Reply #3 on: December 06, 2010, 07:26:54 PM »

Very interesting especially if you live in FortWorth anywhere near that bank.

You got to figure that a score of 110b of would make that place a target of prime interest.

I am sure there is more than person out there that wouldn't mind spending the next 20 - 30 years "sorting" out the occasional creased one .... LOL.

I can imagine a cross between Oceans 11, the Pink panther and Rat Race where all the crooks are bumbling over each other trying to get to the loot.

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« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2010, 01:14:44 AM »

The good news here is that at least we don't have to worry about updating the software on our WBA's for a little while longer.  Odie
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« Reply #5 on: December 07, 2010, 02:30:11 AM »

i bet if you can find some of those new flawed 100s out there, they will be worth money more then face value to collectors....
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« Reply #6 on: December 07, 2010, 02:52:24 AM »

i bet if you can find some of those new flawed 100s out there, they will be worth money more then face value to collectors....

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