Comments on: Coolest Currency Concept… Ever http://jsp.org/2005/11/22/thousand-dollar/ Mon, 18 May 2009 19:25:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: awarren http://jsp.org/2005/11/22/thousand-dollar/comment-page-1/#comment-274 awarren Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:15:05 +0000 http://www.jsp.org/2005/11/22/coolest-currency-concept-ever/#comment-274 In addition to the $500 and $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 notes were printed and circulated publicly, and while out of circulation, the treasury will still redeem them at face value. The treasury actually also printed $100,000 notes, but they were only traded between federal reserve banks to simplify bigger transactions. They had Wilson's portrait because, if memory serves, he signed the bill creating the reserve. Of course, unlike Brett Maverick, Woodrow Wilson was not a fictional TV character from a 1950s-era Warner Bros TV series... ...Anyway, Michael Castle's funny comment (which will live forever in the congressional record) reminds me of something I stumbled upon last week. I was hopelessly flipping channels and hit on CSPAN covering a live house debate, I think over budget, and an older-looking Arkansas congressman was arguing with some young florida gentleman, and called him a "howdy doody looking nimrod." Once I picked myself up off the floor I thought to myself, "oh, we'll be hearing about that on the news." In addition to the $500 and $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 notes were printed and circulated publicly, and while out of circulation, the treasury will still redeem them at face value. The treasury actually also printed $100,000 notes, but they were only traded between federal reserve banks to simplify bigger transactions. They had Wilson’s portrait because, if memory serves, he signed the bill creating the reserve.

Of course, unlike Brett Maverick, Woodrow Wilson was not a fictional TV character from a 1950s-era Warner Bros TV series…

…Anyway, Michael Castle’s funny comment (which will live forever in the congressional record) reminds me of something I stumbled upon last week. I was hopelessly flipping channels and hit on CSPAN covering a live house debate, I think over budget, and an older-looking Arkansas congressman was arguing with some young florida gentleman, and called him a “howdy doody looking nimrod.” Once I picked myself up off the floor I thought to myself, “oh, we’ll be hearing about that on the news.”

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