Treasury/FED to burn 100 Billion of new $100 bills

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This is really UNBELIEVABLE
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookou ... y-properly

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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Came here to post the same thing from CNBC: http://www.cnbc.com/id/40521684

Thing is this isn't news it was stated as a problem back on the first of October. I even read about this last week in another article. However, it seems odd that all the news media is running with this story today. The day before the scheduled European bank runs?

I'd say if/when we see bank runs in the states this will be a good story to bring back up about why we don't have the cash in the vaults to hand out. We told you already there are printing problems and it may take some time to get you the new crispy bills! In the mean time leave the bank lobby as we need to close down for the day due to lack of fed notes.

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Not surprising since the new IMF currency will soon be available don't you think! It will be here before you know it....

http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php ... l-currency