Now, seventy-five years later, why not have the Treasury print a $1,300,000,000,000 bill with the Great Communicator's face on it?
If you print a $100 bill and use it to buy something, you are stealing that something, because that bogus Benjamin wasn't the result of a good that was actually made.
Upon completion of the survey, participants can print a $5 discount coupon on an 18-hole round of golf.
As Joe Weisenthal explains, "People who say this (or say we should print a $100 trillion coin) are mistakenly thinking that the point of this exercise is to pay off our debts and get out of the hole".
In fact, the company is a leading acquirer in commercial printing, a $67.5 billion industry comprising more than 37,000 enterprises.
It acquired Creel Printing, a $130 million privately-owned printer based in Las Vegas.
But the fine print reveals a $1.25 connection fee, a 49-cent monthly maintenance fee and an extra 49-cent charge to call from a pay phone.
A Goldman Sachs analyst broke into print with a $200 a barrel call on oil, but Goldman maybe talks its own book.
The back of the card clearly says -- in very small print -- "A $2 monthly fee will be assessed against card starting 5 months after card issuance.
Flip through $8 prints, commission a $10,000 oil painting, or compare the photographs of the wharf with the real thing.
One of several mistakes in the bonds: notes printed with a $100 million face value when the largest federal denomination is $100,000.
