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$100 Bill Gets a Makeover to Fight Fakes

Posted April 21, 2010 11:46 AM

From MSNBC: Business:

The folks who print America's money have designed a high-tech makeover of the $100 bill. It's part of an effort to stay ahead of counterfeiters as technology becomes more sophisticated and more dollars flow overseas, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says.

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Re: $100 Bill Gets a Makeover to Fight Fakes

04/22/2010 1:24 PM

Buy the time the "Fed" gets done with it, the technology to keep counterfeiters from duplicating it will cost more that the bill itself!

Who will be the first to print the Billion Dollar bill, at least that way, madoff could have carried his money in his pants like the rest of us...

Ben Bernanke says...I thought it was supposed to be Simon!

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