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Ben Franklin gets a makeover: New and improved $100 bill coming in October
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| 24 April 2013
| Daily Mail Reporter
Posted on 04/25/2013 12:00:46 AM PDT by Windflier
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To: Windflier
Why TELL the bad guys this is coming? Wouldn’t it be much better to just announce it was coming a week or ten days out? How dumb ARE the people running our lives?
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posted on
04/25/2013 4:48:49 AM PDT
by
jmaroneps37
(Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
To: Windflier
I like the inkwell with the Liberty Bell in it.
To: Windflier
BO didn’t demand his picture be put on it?
To: cynwoody
Why is Ben smirking on the $100 bill?
Because he was the one Founder smart enough not to get elected president -- and he knew it.
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posted on
04/25/2013 5:36:29 AM PDT
by
Publius
To: Misterioso
I have a beef with that headline too. I’ve read on other threads that some ATMs in Las Vegas dole out 100s.
Maybe ATMs in England give 100-euro notes so they figured ours are similar.
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posted on
04/25/2013 5:42:12 AM PDT
by
jiggyboy
(Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: jughandle
Either he or Bernanke would have the choice for that trillion-dollar coin insanity.
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posted on
04/25/2013 5:43:52 AM PDT
by
jiggyboy
(Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: Publius
Hamilton’s on the 10. Not a President.
To: OnlyTurkeysHaveLeftWings
But he would have liked to be one.
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posted on
04/25/2013 8:53:49 AM PDT
by
Publius
To: Progov
I suppose all those old bills I have stashed under the stump in the woods behine my house will be worthless when the new and improved bills come out. Oh wait, there almost worthless already.... Funny! Um, so which stump was it again?
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posted on
04/25/2013 8:55:39 AM PDT
by
pepsi_junkie
(Who is John Galt?)
To: jmaroneps37
Why TELL the bad guys this is coming? Wouldnt it be much better to just announce it was coming a week or ten days out? What - you think the bad guys can use this information (and images on the internet) to start counterfeiting these bills? Not hardly.
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posted on
04/25/2013 9:01:13 AM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: jughandle
BO didnt demand his picture be put on it? No, he wants his picture on the one dollar bill. He know that most people will never see a one hundred dollar bill in his economy.
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posted on
04/25/2013 9:03:00 AM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Windflier
The currency the entire world will be using in less than five years is all printed and packed, and sitting in warehouses in a European city. The currency has been photographed on the pallets. The banker families who started the federal reserve have plans for a world-wide currency when they hit the reset button. ... No wonder the UFO aliens aren’t sitting down to dine with US, they don’t want the infection spreading to the Galaxy.
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posted on
04/25/2013 9:08:37 AM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(Being deceived can be cured.)
To: Windflier
Why bother? The government is the biggest counterfeiter of all. Their fiat currency is backed by nothing but the illusion of government lies. Someday these bills will be worth less than a square of toilet paper.
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posted on
04/25/2013 9:41:37 AM PDT
by
TexasRepublic
(Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
To: sten
Obligatory picture of a Zimbabwe bank note:
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posted on
04/25/2013 9:55:06 AM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
To: TexasRepublic
The government is the biggest counterfeiter of all. Their fiat currency is backed by nothing but the illusion of government lies. True. My guess is, it's the same for all currencies today. It's the world we live in, which has always been imperfect and fraught with unnecessary evils.
We soldier on.
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posted on
04/25/2013 10:16:57 AM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Windflier
Could this release impact the value of the dollar?
I read the other day that 66% of U.S. Currency is held outside the U.S.; I assume much of it in the favored $100 bill.
Two benefits to introducing the new bill:
1 - The counterfeits in circulation are eliminated, thereby reducing to some degree the USD in circulation.
2 - The new bill offers a "safe" (much lower probability of counterfeits), though admittedly possibly less desirable, alternative to metals; thereby increasing demand.
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posted on
04/25/2013 11:53:35 AM PDT
by
LZ_Bayonet
( I AM THE TEA PARTY LEADER !)
To: LZ_Bayonet
Could this release impact the value of the dollar? I read the other day that 66% of U.S. Currency is held outside the U.S.; I assume much of it in the favored $100 bill. I would assume that it can only help bolster what's left of the value of the US dollar, but the Fed is printing money so fast, that it probably won't make a difference.
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posted on
04/25/2013 12:40:09 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Publius
Ah, gotcha.
The real problem with our money (aside from, you know, inflation) is that it looks like
ass.
Dollar ReDe$ign Project
This, I'd actually be down with. If nothing else, it's at least
interesting, and reflects that over the last 100+ years, some of America's most valuable exports have been its artists.
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