At the US Money Factory, High-Tech Benjamins Roll Off the Presses

I Love these things~!
I bet those guys who's now working for the web site like "moneyfactory" or whatever... they actually won't let you know how they produce these new banknotes...
It'd be terrible if they published too much information about the new money, and then some Chinese or Taiwanese get to know these technologies... In taht case I bet you will probably see the fake ones even before the official release,haha~!

Reika,

They only need to get a hold of ONE...

What a job.

Making money, making money.

Like making money squared.

And still these bills are almost as ugly as before. The rest of the world have really cool looking bills, think of EU and UK for example. Why, oh why are the US bills so unimaginative and boring.

An orange greenback just doesn't seem right...
Ivan Malagurski

I agree with dontbother. The design of US currency seems stuck in rut. The new Benjamin looks like a collection of halfway measures. Why is the country that gave us "Jershey Shores" and "Lady Gaga" so conservative when it comes to money? I only need to point out the brilliance of the Euro and Australian notes. Money printed on transparent plastic sheets has been around and has proven itself for many years already with so many countries around the world. I love how one can go swimming with a wad of plastic currency stuffed in the pocket of one's swim trunks and not have to worry about it. Paper is so last century.

I hate this new looking money. I loved the plain old money we all used for 40 some odd years. I'm sorry only an idiot or someone benefiting from the transaction falls for false money. My five dollar bills get checked for christ sakes! How do they check it just like they have been forever? By looking for the security strip.

Holograms can and do get duplicated.

This just gives people a false sense of security.

Also gives professional counterfeiters a HUGE gain.
(not dummies xeroxing bills)

Federal reserve money isnt worth the paper its printed on anyways, when people wake up and realize they're actually broke with all this paper b.s., then maybe we as a people can move forward and get back on some sort of "track".

I can agree that our money is an ugly design, and that plastic is better and would last longer- however, people forget about the infrastructure we have in place already! Can you imagine the government forcing every single business to replace old vending machine readers just to accommodate a drastic new design/plastic incorporation? I think everyone forgot we have soooo much in place that has accepted such old designs for so long, we can't make a 180 overnight. DEAL WITH IT.

Our government has operated on the guesstimation that at least, or as much as, 20% of our monetary supply is counterfeit at any one time for some years now. How we get a good reading on our gross domestic product like that is beyond me, I've only taken a few economics courses. Still, it seems clear to me that getting our phased out money out of circulation as fast as possible is key. Getting all legitimate currency exchanged is something the American people could really help out with, especially now, when we need every dime.

Have the numbers on the Twin Towers bullion salvage been published yet? I notice I've seen MANY more offers for this and that coins, 'mint' sets from companies I've never heard of over the years lately, right when so called precious metals like gold are so artificially inflated in value.

I like the new design. I don't see it as particularly ugly. Poor old Ben Franklin wasn't exactly a looker -- though I hear he had no problem getting the ladies back in the day.