The dollar may be going to hell, but that doesn’t mean it can’t look good doing so. Hence, the Dollar ReDe$ign Project, by Richard Smith.
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May 24th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
That’s great! :-)
But why continue to use the faces of the former President’s…Let’s put the “newer” face on those…
Also, you’ll need to move fast (with versions that have A LOT more “O’s” on them)…
Hey, did I just make a pun there? I meant ‘zero’s…
May 24th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
I’ve got an idea for the dollar redesign.
Change the 1 to a 0 :mrgreen:
May 24th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
cvienne,
I’m going to disagree with putting new presidents on there. These men, were real leaders.
I sort of miss the pyramid and the all seeing eye but pretty colors should go good with all the new ipods.
On a social note:
There is no “In God We Trust”
May 24th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
They may as well eliminate the middle men and just put the pictures of CEOs of GS on there
May 24th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
one flew over the Cuckoos nest:
http://tinyurl.com/q3wz7e
May 24th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
@ben22
You missed my JOKE…My ‘reason’ for putting NEWER President’s faces on the bill was to remind everyone WHY the currency is inflating & worthless…
Why blame it on Jefferson, Lincoln, Washington, & Jackson?
Big “O” seems to relish publicity (he’s on TV just about every friggin’ second)…So why not have WHEELBARROWS full of his image to cart off o the grocery store and buy a loaf of bread with?
May 24th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Barry, shoot for your pic on the million dollar note. Those are going to be real popular in just a few short years :)
May 24th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
cvienne,
clearly I never get any of the jokes on here. sorry.
May 24th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
@ben22
No prob good buddy…
I just like to use humor a lot…(I’m just trying to be “ironic” when I do, not “mean”)…
I’m kind of like the character ‘Rockhound” (played by Steve Buscemi in the movie Armageddon)…
“Hey…I had a great spot picked out out there [to view the end of the world]…just trying to have a little fun before I die”…
May 24th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
This is just perfect. Dollar going into the toilet, so let’s tart it up a bit. Let’s just put Gutenberg on the front.
May 24th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
I am thinking of a more modern design. Turn the Hubble telescope to the center of the Milky Way and take the best possible picture of the black hole at the center of our galaxy…
Yes…probably on the $100.00…..
May 24th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
@thetanman
You’re onto something there…(toilet)
Let’s put a picture of the “Tidybowl man” on there…
May 24th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
I prefer the classic designs. On this page you will find pdf files for all the denominations of Monopoly money:
http://www.hasbro.com/games/kid-games/monopoly/default.cfm?page=StrategyGuide/gametools
May 24th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
ben22,
catch the Joke of having either Jefferson, or Jackson, on FedRes ‘Notes’..
btw, Jefferson is, already, on the U$D 2 ‘Note’
May 24th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Mark,
Yeah I just went back and looked at the $2 a little bit ago. I got 4 of them uncut for a christmas present last year.
May 24th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
ben22,
then look at the back of it–it’s either that, or Chains, our Choice.
May 24th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Let’s put a picture of BARNEY FRANK on a $3 bill! :-)
May 24th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
@Fredex
When I was about 6 years old…
This is ABSOLUTELY A TRUE STORY…
The ice cream man (Good Humor Truck) came jingling by and I attempted to pay him for a “Rocket Pop” and a “toasted almond” with Monopoly money…
He ended up being a good sport about it and let me keep the ‘Rocket pop’, but NO TOASTED ALMOND…
Then I got a “good whoopin’” from my mom…
May 24th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Boy, do i remember the Ice Cream truck! I think it was the only thing my mother would ever give me money for.. : )
Anyway, I would be excited for a USD redesign.. oh, and what if they made them different sizes? We might need to invest in NCR. (oh, just checked that chart; sometimes good ideas come out of the blue.)
May 24th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
@karen
Two things…(off the top of my dome)…
1. Yeah…different sizes…especially SMALLER (reflecting our reduced buying power)
2. Mark Hurd is gone and Teradata got spun off…NCR’s best chance is if they just hold on to their Teradata shares and call it a day…
May 24th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Other than obvious counterfeiting measures, I like the look and feel of our current currency. The only thing I would change is to replace the Federal Reserve notes with Treasury issued silver certificates.
May 24th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
thank you, cvienne, i’ll take that under advisement. still, a colorful, frivolous bill would be rather more indicative of their nature… as a kid, i cherished canadian silver dimes because they had a sailboat on one side… and i still have my bill from the Bahamas when I was 18… seashells and color.. hard to top that.
May 24th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
karen,
funny thing is, even at 80%, that Cando silver Dime, today, is worth than a U$D.
and, to me, Cursive is on the right track. “The Fed” provides Zero + Utility to the People.
May 24th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
@karen
On the TDC side (relating to NCR)…
I’m sure I come off as the consummate JOKER on this site (because of the never ending stream of “one liners” I come out with on this or that)… BUT…
I’m not totally joking about TDC (re: NCR)…
If there are any “green shoots” anywhere, I’ll bank on TDC (with disclosure of nothing else other than that I have knowledge of their SALES FORCE and a certain “tigress” I know that has elevated herself within those ranks and was heavily recruited elsewhere)…
On the “arugula” side…HEREAFTER referred to as “rucola” (the Italian word for it)…
Do you grow your own rucola (or do you BUY it)? If you GROW it…Please accept my most humble tips for producing a tasty & steady supply for the future…If you’re so inclined…I learned these techniques from the BEST, as I lived in Italy for 12 years…
May 24th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Karen Says:
“still, a colorful, frivolous bill would be rather more indicative of their nature”
I am thinking Elvis on the $20, James Dean on the $10, Jimi Hendrix on the $5, Marilyn Monroe (in the Warhol style) on the $1-
the 50 and $100 are up for grabs
May 24th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Bruce in tn:
Good idea. Sorry to point this out however, but the Hubble can’t see the BH at the center of the Galaxy. It’s obscured by dust. Some might say that nothing can see a black hole, which is technically correct, but often they have plenty of action in their neighborhoods that does make for good viewing. Personally, I am a fan of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescopes images.
Check ‘em out:
http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/HawaiianStarlight/HawaiianStarlight-Archive.html
May 24th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
The dollar bills discriminate against blind people. How do they know the difference between a $1 and $50 bill? They are the same size and shape. Buy something for $10, pay me with a $100 bill and I’ll give you (the blind) 5 $1 bills totaling $90. It’s time for the US to join the civilized world and have different shape for different bills.
May 24th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
super_
http://clusty.com/search?input-form=clusty-simple&v%3Asources=webplus&query=u.s.+treasury+devices+on+banknotes+for+blind
has all the makings of a wedge issue to Trash Cash..
past that, peep ripping off the blind should be flogged, on the spot..
May 24th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
@Bruce in Tn
The center of our galaxy (notwithstanding formidable devotion from Ptolemy, Hippocrates, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, or the like to state otherwise) is ACTUALLY 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC. on a planet called Earth…
I can prove my point scientifically…
Take your paycheck and cash it at your local bank…
Place it in your hands as a stack of $100 bills…
You will see that the “gravitational pull” that is exerted on that will eventually suck it away in the direction of the aforementioned geographic region…
And as kukiniloa correctly states…the transaction is “obscured by dust” so nobody can see it…
I learned that experiment from Bill Nye the Science Guy…
May 24th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
I know that guys, we’d have to look at Andromeda or another…however, our debt belongs in our galaxy…
May 24th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
And if you are as old as me, you can remember the transformation of thinking of black holes as rare, to realizing they are at the center of every galaxy…
May 24th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Actually, I am not sure if globular clusters have a black hole in their center, so maybe I mispoke…
May 24th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
Bruce,
the problem with your suggestion is that our “Debt”, like our “Dollar” is a complete Fiction.
our Galaxy, so we believe, is not.
thereby, if one is looking for symbolism to adorn FedRes ‘Notes’, they may do well by starting here:
http://www.allposters.com/gallery.asp?aid=1027106301&apnum=96945&LinkTypeID=1&PosterTypeID=1&DestType=7&Referrer%20=http://www.squidoo.com/mc-escher
or, if more optimistic, here: http://www.allposters.com/gallery.asp?aid=1027106301&apnum=346335&LinkTypeID=1&PosterTypeID=1&DestType=7&Referrer%20=http://www.squidoo.com/mc-escher
May 24th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
MEH:
You are right…actually got to thinking about it…and I can’t find a reference that says that any of the galactic objects called globular clusters are big enough to be charecterized as galaxies…don’t know how I got that idea, either. Like I’ve said before…my brother got all the brains, and I had to settle for the good looks…
May 24th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
@Bruce in Tn
The last thing I heard, “Abell 2218″ was the farthest galaxy away from our own…
It is estimated that it formed only 750 million years after the BIG BANG…
The space shuttle is still circulating in our atmosphere in the present moment after a mission to repair the Hubbell telescope (which is credited with the discovery of Abell 2218)…
Meanwhile, Big “O” just appointed Chuck Bolden to be the head of NASA…
Is there any correlation here?
Is this all a SCIENTIFIC STUDY to determine the “spatial” depth of the universe to see how high we might be able to pile on our national debt?
Stay tuned…
May 24th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
Bruce,
my Comment had nothing to do w/ “globular clusters”, w/, or w/o “Black Holes”.
btw, you never did say whether your bro was entangled in UNIQ..
May 24th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
let’s just make all the money electronic. then we can default out of this mess by claiming a hard disk crash.
May 24th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
@drollere
“Yeah baby”)…AUSTIN POWERS…
Even the modern Monopoly games have electronic debit systems, not cash…
Go Parker bros!
May 24th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
Typical … generals fighting the last war, designing for yesterday’s issues …
These new dollars are seriously lacking in zeros.
WHERE IS THE TRILLION DOLLAR BILL??
May 24th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
If they were printed on a roll of soft paper then they’d always have some value.
May 24th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
The redesign looks eerily familiar to Canadian money.
May 24th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
@drollere / olephart
Two opposite ends of the money spectrum, but a similar analysis nonetheless. Fiat makes bad cars and bad money. We need sound money via a hard currency.
May 24th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
@Cursive
Franklin has GOT to be either driving (or “pining to own”) the old 500 (cinquecento)…because his “boy” Big O told him so…
In any case, if he does (drive it), or if he will (purchase one)…Let me offer some humble instructions…
MAKE SURE YOU LIVE ON THE TOP OF A STREET THAT HAS A SERIOUS INCLINE…That way, when you park your car at night, you can angle it downwards so as to be able to “pop the clutch” and let the gears turn the ignition over…
Italy is a “hilly” country…they’ve known this for YEARS…
May 24th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
@cvienne – why did you leave Italy?
BTW, my rucola is now a volunteer crop – never have to plant. Is that one of the Italian tips? You may have missed my earlier post bragging that my potatoes, borage, lovage, oregano and mustard are also volunteers. My goal: never plant anything again, just go out a pick lunch or dinner every day.
Swiss currency is cool – follows the recommendations of some posters here: different colors and shapes. However, I wouldn’t want to be a waitress. Their change purses are HUGE!
@ Bruce in Tn – I’m doing ALL of my own investing now, too. No advisors, funds, or any of that folderdiddle. I’m learning lots here. Too bad it was too late to avoid a horrible mistake on commodity stocks. I think I fell for a pump-and-dump article on Seeking Alpha. Need I say that I don’t seek Alpha any more???
May 24th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
@JoWriter
Thanks for calling it “rucola:!…:-)
“Volunteer crop”…That WAS NOT one of my tips but I can understand how it could happen…Let me guess…Do you live in Oregon? Idaho? Michigan? Maine? If you do, you’re lucky, the stuff grows like WEEDS in those regions…
Even if not…all it takes is about 3 seconds to understand the climate of your region to grow all the yummies you want…
May 24th, 2009 at 11:41 pm
@cvienne – Brilliant! Yes, I live in Oregon – on THIS side of the Cascades. We have a saying, “Don’t throw your garbage out in the back yard. It will start to grow.”
I figured the Italians just harvested roadside weeds and made salads or frittati. I actually saw radicchio growing on a country roadside near my town. That’s what turned the light bulb on for me. I’d tried to grow radicchio, but our winters weren’t cold enough (but, see graf below) and I planted to early in the spring.
Aside from the volunteers and self-seeders, I grow as many perennials as I can. Being married to an engineer for decades showed me how to be lazy AND smart!
Actually, I’m still learning the climate. What with global warm…, er, climate change, er, whatever. Thought I had it under control and we got 24″ of snow this year. I think it’s cooling. My seeds were smart and stayed in the ground twice as long as their nominal germination rate rather than sprouting.
So, really, why did you leave Italy? My daughter says Italy proves that anarchy works! She also says they, like SoCalif., are being saved by the underground economy. As a poster pointed out several days ago, fiat money is only needed to pay taxes. Just about everything else you can get with barter and DIY.
May 25th, 2009 at 3:33 am
cvienne,
Damn that was funny.
May 25th, 2009 at 7:42 am
The purpose of currency has become to subsidize the shadow banking system. Therefore, instead of using “dollars” as the units, I propose using “CDOs” instead. At which point, the previous poster’s idea of using the faces of ex-Goldman Sachs CEOs starts to really make sense.
May 26th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
Did anyone notice the two subliminal messages here?
1. – We will not accept old dollars unless you prove where you got them or deposit them in your account.
2. – We will inflate by 100% by issuing a $200 bill so that a suitcase full of $200 bills will have the same purchasing power as a suitcase full of $100 bills has now.