New 100 Dollar Bill

[Ford 1st MRB]

http://www.newmoney.gov/newmoney/Splashpage.aspx

Dare I say they finally beat the counterfeiters?

[S. Smith]

It's possible.

Counterfeiters might just switch to lower bills, such as 20's or 10's. They should redo every bill, and it may put a total end to counterfeiting.

[Mendels]

That 3D strip reminds me of Euros...so pretty...so annoying to convert to from US dollars.

Counterfeiting older versions will still continue, but I'm pretty sure 20's are the most counterfeited because people don't have time to check every 20 dollar bill, they'll check a 100.

[Goodwin 1st MRB]

Meh;

Doesn't much matter anyhow - the hacks will still try and hack, and the "Federal Reserve" will still be a money making machine that prints as much funny money as it wants for greedy Americans!

I still find it pretty shocking many people don't realize that the 'federal reserve' is it's own business (kind of like 'federal express') and that they charge us for the money they print for us... we could print it ourselves without paying someone else to do it, but we don't... why?

There's a whole lot of corruption upstairs that most people don't even realize. And that's a damn shame. So with that said, I hope the counter fitters can beat it

[Whitebeard]

I'll stick to identify theft and counterfeiting checks, thank you very much!

-Whitebeard

[Ray 1st MRB]

are you...

are you saying that taxes are corrupt?...

or you really don't like the federal reserve...

i am confused... counterfeiting is good... how is that... i feel like i should take a nap...

[Englebretson 1st MRB]

Meh;

Doesn't much matter anyhow - the hacks will still try and hack, and the "Federal Reserve" will still be a money making machine that prints as much funny money as it wants for greedy Americans!

I still find it pretty shocking many people don't realize that the 'federal reserve' is it's own business (kind of like 'federal express') and that they charge us for the money they print for us... we could print it ourselves without paying someone else to do it, but we don't... why?

There's a whole lot of corruption upstairs that most people don't even realize. And that's a damn shame. So with that said, I hope the counter fitters can beat it

I agree with goodwin. if theres a will theres a way. Nothing is fool proof these days and i bet nothing ever will be. On the other hand the new bill looks cool.

[Mendels]

When it comes to money printing, you can't just print off $1 billion dollars and pay with it, that's why a federal agency is in charge. If everyone made their own money, inflation would make it worth little more than the paper itself. Furthermore, if too little is printed, cash transactions are limited, and we lose money to the debit/credit industries.

[Goodwin 1st MRB]

When it comes to money printing, you can't just print off $1 billion dollars and pay with it, that's why a federal agency is in charge. If everyone made their own money, inflation would make it worth little more than the paper itself. Furthermore, if too little is printed, cash transactions are limited, and we lose money to the debit/credit industries.

This - is true. HOWEVER - the 'federal agency' in charge of printing money, is a BUSINESS. It's not a GOVERNMENT RUN 'agency' - They charge us to print the money - we OWE them to print money that we COULD have an actual government agency run. They are as 'federal', as 'federal express'. Why does America do this?

Also, in previous years the fed's had to reveal how much money was printed each and every year - so that everyone knew and could tell exactly where our dollar stood and it's value. Ex-Pres George Bush signed something into effect allowing them NOT to have to disclose how much money was printed, making our money even more prone to speculation - thus decreasing (or falsely increasing) it's value and making it more of a guessing game (which in essence hurts our dollar, a lot).

I hope no one holds my opinions against me, when I say that our government is full of corruption, and the American people are lied to on an almost daily basis - and the majority of Americans are believe a LOT of those lies. It's scary.

The only way this stuff will change, will be another Revolution - and it's coming! If you look at the state of our union, and then look historically at every other democracy ever - we're approaching the end. And our current movements which lend themselves to a socialistic vision are proof of that.

Our country was founded with AMAZING forethought, and our forefathers gave us EXPLICIT rules to keep the democracy they created humming along smoothly - we have disobeyed pretty much everything they've said (and if you dig, you can find the exact quotes from our forefathers). But Americans just keep on 'living the dream', and pretty soon 'the dream' is going to be what screws each and every one of them.

I hope our country gets back on track, but as I've said before - this county is so far 'gone' from it's original values and ideals, nothing less than revolution or a complete WIPE of the current elected officials will even begin to change us for the better.

Democrat? Republican? Why even argue, either side would be doing essentially the same things in office right now, and the party out of office would claim "their party" would be doing it differently - but that's not true. People are so caught up in dems vs. repubs these days, they don't realize they're both wolves in sheeps clothing. We need to wake up!

Sorry for the hijack.

The new money does look very cool

[Fray]

Yeah they should do this for all Dollar Bills to prevent counterfeit.

[Gooderham 1st MRB]

Looks like ALL the Canadian bills, except with the downside that the $100 bill looks very similar to the $1 bill due to colour, or lack there of, unlike in Canada.