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Current Events => Economics => Topic started by: Allentownjake on December 06, 2010, 10:23:01 AM
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http://www.cnbc.com//id/40521684
A significant production problem with new high-tech $100 bills has caused government printers to shut down production of the new notes and to quarantine more than one billion of the bills in huge vaults in Fort Worth, Texas and Washington, DC, CNBC has learned.
Initially scheduled for release in February of 2011, the new bills were announced with great fanfare by officials at the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve in April.
At the time, officials announced the new bills would incorporate sophisticated high-tech security features, including a 3-D security strip and a color-shifting image of a bell designed to foil counterfeiters.
But the production process is so complex, it has instead foiled the government printers tasked with producing billions of the new notes.
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:nelson:
I really shouldn't laugh, because it's both sad and disgusting.
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They should call the North Korean counterfieters for help.
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They should call the North Korean counterfieters for help.
Just for the sake of accuracy, North Korea does nothing -- even counterfeiting --
without the assistance & approval of the PRC. It has no means.
So IMO, it's more accurate to say Chinese counterfeiters.