Now this is interesting. Was this a mistake, a heist or a way to remove US dollars from the system?
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.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20101206/us_yblog_thelookout/government-cant-print-money-properly;_ylt=AhAYvdfipB.tOnoQMmiSNCms0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNmZXBpN2tyBGFzc2V0A3libG9nX3RoZWxvb2tvdXQvMjAxMDEyMDYvZ292ZXJubWVudC1jYW50LXByaW50LW1vbmV5LXByb3Blcmx5BHBvcwM4BHNlYwN5bl9tb3N0X3BvcHVsYXIEc2xrA2dvdmVybm1lbnRjYQ--#mwpphu-container
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