The war between the Department of the Treasury and counterfeiters around the world continues to escalate.  For every change in their techniques, the Treasury responds with a change in the currency, and after 14 years, the $100 bill is getting a new look to help combat forgery.  This is the bill’s first redesign since 1996; interestingly, that redesign kicked off an entire wave of bill redesigns which led to new $20, $50, $10, and $5 notes.  Now we’re back to where it all started.

The new bill will debut at 10:30 today, and will be presented by the Bureau of Printing and Engraving in a ceremony at the Treasury’s Cash Room.  To my disappointment, this isn’t a room dedicated to Johnny Cash.  Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will take time out of their busy schedules of printing money to give away to struggling financial companies to attend the event.  Let’s hope they spell-checked the printing plates!

Make sure you have some brand new conspiracy theories to go along with the money’s new design, like how you can be tracked via those little plastic strips in the bills, or how Benjamin Franklin was actually Satan and these bills are all part of America’s movement to a Satanism-based government.

Tags: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, new 0 bill, Benjamin Franklin, counterfeiters, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Department of the Treasury’s Cash Room, 0 bill gets facelift, new c-note

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