From: "Geo." 

Yes but the technique is standard practice when at war, one of the first
things you do is flood the markets with counterfeit money because that
flooding does a lot of harm.

Geo.

"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
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> Good counterfeiting is ***hard*** to do, it may be attempted, but it would
> never be allowed to get widespread enough to actually impact the economy.
> Money travels through the banks and the federal reserve and there are very
> specific rules governing the circulation of money that would make it darn
> near impossible to do mass counterfeiting...
>
> - Bob Comer
>
>
> "Geo."  wrote in message
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> > Quick question that just came up here.
> >
> > How much of an issue would it have been for the US if Saddam were
printing
> > billions of dollars of US currency?
> >
> > Every time I read about saddam and money it's always us funds he has
> whether
> > it's 3/4 of a billon dollars in some palace or 3/4 of a million dollars
on
> > his person.
> >
> > How likely is it that he was trying to collapse the US economy by
printing
> > money, surely printing presses could be purchased and it's not something
> > that would be difficult to hide in a country like Iraq.
> >
> > Geo.
> >
> >
>
>

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