From: "Robert Comer" 

> 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.

Yep, but that was before, not now.  It also assumes enough disruption to
begin with for the counterfeiting to have an effect.

- Bob Comer


"Geo."  wrote in message
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> 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
> news:3fddd34a$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > 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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