Meet your new $100 bill
Source: money.cnn.com
For only the fourth time in history, there will be a new $100 bill.
After a three-year delay due to slower-than-expected production, Americans will finally have an improved, high-tech $100 bill for their wallets, the Federal Reserve said Wednesday.
The bill is set to debut on Oct. 8.
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The note features a series of amped-up security measures aimed at combating counterfeiters, including a blue, 3-D security ribbon on the front of the bill that moves when the note is tilted back and forth and side to side.
Read more: http://money.cnn.com/2013/04/24/news/economy/new-100-dollar-bill/
neffernin
(275 posts)David Jin
Now let's get rid of the penny and nickel.
BongoFury> David Jin
Never underestimate the powerful fear of change we have in the US.
Double entendre!
MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)But then again, who cares what it looks like as long as it spends?
Lateedee
(19 posts)Why change it at all? I mean everyone on both sides of the isle talk about needless spending, why change the look of the money?
0rganism
(23,944 posts)krispos42
(49,445 posts)I think the only thing the government loses money on is the nickel and the penny.
greiner3
(5,214 posts)KansDem
(28,498 posts)The reddish image.
Looks like a spittoon:
Or maybe a milk jug:
cstanleytech
(26,286 posts)KansDem
(28,498 posts)That's telling!
cstanleytech
(26,286 posts)Occulus
(20,599 posts)I'm sure it wasn't thought of, but it's still amusing anyway.
JusticeForAll
(1,222 posts)I don't think it's so clear.
The really light orange feather quill pen appearing above it, does suggest that it is an inkwell though.
Rob H.
(5,351 posts)and his shirt and the area around his head are mostly white--he looks like his name should be 'Benjamin Franklinstein.'
24601
(3,961 posts)frazzled
(18,402 posts)Like the old franc notes. Oh well.
Who carries around $100 bills anyway? I'll have to get one when they come out, however, just to play with it.
whopis01
(3,511 posts)happyslug
(14,779 posts)Basically Franklin supported paper money as a medium of exchange. Pennsylvania in the Colonial Period had used paper money for decades, without a problem. One of the restrictions the British Government wanted to impose on the Colonies was to forbid them from issuing paper money. Franklin commented that that policy lead to a shortage of cash and a drop in business activities due to a lack of a medium of Exchange. This caused a huge reduction in trade and with it a decline in the Economy. To "Fix" that problem the Colonies had to fight for their independence so they could print money.
Now, the US Constitution that Franklin wrote, restricted the States from printing money, but the reason for that restrictions was they now had a FEDERAL GOVERNMENT that could do so for them AND such Federal money could be used nation wide. It took till the Civil War for the Federal Government to print Paper money, but once it did the advantages of having a medium of exchange was so clear that it continued even after the massive inflation of the Civil War Years.
Side note: By the end of the Civil War, paper money was being printed for values as low a 3 cents, which was the postage rate of that time period. No Gold or Silver coins could be found till long after the end of the Civil War and the return to $20 to an ounce of gold. During this time period you had a MASSIVE EXPANSION OF THE ECONOMY, you had the Federal Government fight a very expensive war. All done with Paper money.
The problem was the economic dogma of the time period was that money should NOT lose value, but hold its value and that value was how much gold it would buy. This dogma ignored the rules of Supply and Demand, for a massive Gold discovery (as in California in 1849 and South African, Alaskan and Australia gold finds around 1898) could lead to a massive economic expansion due to the increase amount of money due to the massive influx of newly mined gold. This expansion of the Supply of Gold, reduced Gold's value in relations to anything else and thus was inflationary. A slight inflation of the Economy leads to expansion of that economy and the creation of a economic boom as seen in the 1850s and again after 1898. These expansions were due to inflation due to massive influx of gold.
Now during the Civil War the US Government left the US Dollar off the Gold Standard, but while doing so saw a continued massive expansion of its economy due to the increase spending due to the war. At the end of the War, this expansion continued till Congress Decided it was time for the US to return to the pre Civil War Gold Standard of $20 to an ounce of gold. Most of California gold had been discovered by then, thus you had a more "fixed" amount of gold in the world. Congress's decision to return to $20 to an ounce of Gold, (This was achieved by 1874) is considered one of the worse economic mistakes the US ever made. This move lead to what is now called the "Long Depression" of about 1870-1898 (Prior to the 1930s it was called the "Great Depression", but the Depression of the 1930s took over that name).
In the period of 1870 to 1898 what the economy needed was expansion, an expansion that could only be achieved with an influx of currency. The "Free Silver" movement of the 1870s, 1880s and 1890s was an attempt to create such an influx of currency by replacing Gold with Silver. Such an influx of currency (in the Free Silver Movement Silver Coins, today it would be paper money) would lead to mild inflation and thus an expansion of the economy. The Free Silver Movement only died out with the influx of Gold from South African, Alaskan and Australia achieved the same economic result, with a new influx of gold (and one of the reason for WWI, was those Gold deposits were drying up, and the world wide economy was returning to the economy of the 1880s with its massive deflation due to a lack of an ability to expand the medium of exchange). WWI ended the problem of using gold, as all countries at war except the US, dropped the Gold Standard (And one of the reason for the Great Depression was England's return to it in 1926, to early so it forced the British economy into a tell spin it took decades to recover from).
If everyone had stayed with Paper money, as Ben Franklin advised them to do in the 1750s till his death in 1790, a lot of the economic problems of the last 200 years would have been avoided. It took the Great Depression for most economists to accept that Gold was to much of a restriction on the economy for it could NOT expand when needed, or to shrink when needed, something Ben Franklin saw in Pennsylvania 200 years before. That is the problem with Gold as a "Standard". Thus we should never again see Ben Franklin on a Coin (and then he was on the old Silver Half Dollar never a Gold Coin) and should always see him on paper, for that is what he advocated as the best medium of exchange for it can be expanded when economically needed, something any other standard can NOT do, especially one based on a metal like Gold.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)but we have a family tradition of sending each kid a hundred dollar bill in his birthday card every year.
Will all of the old ones remain usable, if I actually had any around?
any currency ever printed by the US is still redeemable at face value. Its worth more to collectors, but the US Government / your bank will accept a deposit of a double eagle, etc.
However, when it goes into circulation then banks will no longer distribute the old bill, just the new one, so in fairly short order most bills will be the new one.
Mosby
(16,306 posts)And contains almost a full ounce of gold.
You would have to be a complete idiot to deposit one at the bank.
Jimbo S
(2,958 posts)marble falls
(57,080 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)Moondog
(4,833 posts)I can't remember the last time I saw one in actual circulation.
There is a serious counterfeiting issue overseas. This is probably meant to try and counter that. For an all too brief period of time.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Moondog
(4,833 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)First comment from most countries is that American money STINKS.
BTW: Summer is coming.
If someone pays you with damp bills from a wallet from their back pocket - It's ass sweat.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)Lateedee
(19 posts)but if both sides of the isle in DC are complaining of there being no money, then why are we changing the look of the money? I have got to be missing something here.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)Wouldn't it be great to hear what they think of this nation's monetary policies. They'd probably wanna go back to their graves.
tarheelsunc
(2,117 posts)Earth_First
(14,910 posts)high density
(13,397 posts)They were churning out tens of millions of dollars a day of these when I visited the Fort Worth Bureau of Engraving and Printing nearly a year ago. I'd love to see the huge warehouse storing all of this currency they've been producing in the meantime.
Boomerproud
(7,952 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)graham4anything
(11,464 posts)With a modern world, who needs dollars and cents?
APS, credit cards
With all electronic sales, there would no longer be robberies for cash.
Instantly making the nation safer.
No more bank robberies. No more store robberies for cash
I buy $1 worth of lotto ticket twice a week, for some reason one can't charge that.
But they can change that rule(maybe add a fee or something.)
Mosby
(16,306 posts)I'm in the bank every day making deposits and see people all the time making large withdrawls so they can pay there employees under the table. Its funny, you have to fill out a federal form, which includes your social for DEPOSITS above 10K but you can withdraw 10K in cash no problem. Weird huh?
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)to avoid fees, we are not allowed to go inside for any transaction the ATM can handle.
(or on-line).
Guess we are riff raff. And we can't use the outside drive thru either.
I can remember when they used to toss things at us begging us to join the bank.
Mosby
(16,306 posts)I make daily cash deposits for the company I work for.
They charge us to make deposits, its about 1.5 percent. (Chase btw)
I could use the night drop box but I want a deposit reciept right away.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)"With a modern world, who needs dollars and cents? "
Many people do not have bank accounts... however, I concede there are most likely a handful of idiots (and bankers) who would like to see the government force everyone to have a bank account and pay their fees.
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)The government could provide cards for any purchases necessary.
One doesn't physically need bills or cash.
Instead of a social security check, one can get a reusable card if one is a senior.
No bank needed.
(besides, if one is receiving a government check, where do they cash it? It would save that problem, and if the cards were person specific, then it couldn't be stolen, saves that problem.
Doctor Who
(147 posts)I prefer to keep some money in small bills at home in case of an emergency.
rucky
(35,211 posts)or maybe a QR code that leads to an app.
If you're going to spend 100 dollars on one of these, you should get something more.
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)they had to start fresh.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)all the bankers were complaining the old ones burned too fast.