January 22, 2004
From the desk of Mindles H. Dreck:Novus Advert Seclorum
The USA Network is advertising its new show with stickers on 50,000 circulating dollar bills. Marketplace had the story today.
"What if the Treasury sold advertising space on dollar bills?" asks Marketplace. I would say this technique probably has a short half-life.
Posted by Mindles H. Dreck at January 22, 2004 9:35 PM | TrackBack | Technorati inbound linksHad this discussion at work about six years ago. Our conclusion was it would either raise a little money -- or completely destroy our economic system. The economic system is based on trust.
You start selling space on the money, and people's trust in the underlying currency could be affected -- and probably would. If that happened, well, the whole cash sector of our economy crashes.
Better for the government to just steal the money :) That way, you're not tinkered with the source code of the economy.
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