The new $100 bill design was unveiled today, and will go into circulation next February. The new $100s are aimed at preventing counterfeiting. NPR’s Planet Money reports: The $100 is a favorite of counterfeiters, for obvious reasons, and the government’s rolling out new bills to try and make life harder for them. It seems like [...]
Ever see millions of dollars get shredded into the trash? When does a dollar bill not, well, fit the bill anymore? Yesterday, EconomyStory took a field trip to the Federal Reserve branch in downtown LA with a group of NPR reporters here for the week from across the country to learn from experts about expanding [...]
When I was in 6th grade, my teacher came up with a currency for our classroom – we could earn various denominations of the bills, printed on colored papered with homegrown cartoons drawn on them, for special projects, or we could take it in lieu of extra credit on tests, or lose it for bad [...]
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