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2019-12-18 Economy

$1.5 trillion worth of $100 bills reportedly disappeared

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Posted by Procopius2k 2019-12-18 09:06|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Check Iran

Posted by DarthVader 2019-12-18 09:35|| 2019-12-18 09:35|| Front Page Top

#2 I bet there's a lot of them in Whitey Bulger's safe deposit boxes throughout the world; you guys can start there...

Posted by Raj 2019-12-18 09:35|| 2019-12-18 09:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Some people will roll their cigarettes with Benjamins.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-18 09:43|| 2019-12-18 09:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Should ask Hunter Biden, between nose candy straws (its not plastic!) and strippers, he could burn through a lot of it.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-12-18 10:43|| 2019-12-18 10:43|| Front Page Top

#5 I once saw a photo of a room full of cash from some drug lord's place.

Posted by Glenmore 2019-12-18 11:18|| 2019-12-18 11:18|| Front Page Top

#6 Well, then it's a good thing we're printing so much of it, I guess.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2019-12-18 11:39|| 2019-12-18 11:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Prob'y sitting in safes of gov't officials and other wealthy individuals countries that have experienced severe currency devaluations recently.

A local currency devaluation makes these individuals' primary investment - real estate - much less valuable. So they shift their investments out of real estate and into hard currency i.e. $$ (or else US real estate - thus more than any factor is driving the California & Vancouver BC / Manhattan / Miami / London real estate booms of recent decades).

Some likely suspects i.e. countries with very weak currencies and/or that experienced major currency devaluations in 2018-19:

- China due to the trade war
- Iran due to the sanctions
- Venezuela due to the leaders' banditry/idiocy
- Argentina due to the leaders' banditry/idiocy
- Indonesia due to the leaders' banditry/idiocy
- Uganda due to the leaders' banditry/idiocy

Posted by Lex 2019-12-18 11:41|| 2019-12-18 11:41|| Front Page Top

#8 leaders' banditry/idiocy

Don't apply to Iran & China?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-18 11:43|| 2019-12-18 11:43|| Front Page Top

#9 Them 2

Posted by Lex 2019-12-18 11:44|| 2019-12-18 11:44|| Front Page Top

#10 I bet there's a lot of them in Whitey Bulger's safe deposit boxes throughout the world; you guys can start there...

We'll get the FBI on it right away.

Posted by SteveS 2019-12-18 11:58|| 2019-12-18 11:58|| Front Page Top

#11 Wonder how much is stashed in the safes of Comey, McCabe, Brennan, Clapper, Zero, Kerry, Biden, Billary...

Posted by Lex 2019-12-18 12:00|| 2019-12-18 12:00|| Front Page Top

#12 I once saw two vans full of several currencies burning, including $US. It was meant for AQIS.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-12-18 12:13|| 2019-12-18 12:13|| Front Page Top

#13 print new 100dollar bills and refuse to accept the old ones after a certain date.

Freely swap old for new

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-12-18 16:05|| 2019-12-18 16:05|| Front Page Top

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