All The Money The Government Is Printing This Year, In One Graphic

[mickeyd]

Another one of those cool easy-to read graphics from Planet Money. Enjoy.

All The Money The Government Is Printing This Year, In One Graphic : Planet Money : NPR

 

[2B]

Other than drug deals, I wonder what all the $100 bills are used for? I never intentionally get one.

 

[mickeyd]

Other than drug deals, I wonder what all the $100 bills are used for? I never intentionally get one.

My thoughts also.

 

[NYEXPAT]

They are coming out with a "new" $100.00 bill in Jan 2013, but not to worry as the counterfeiters already stole samples from the first batch that was printed in Dallas!

 

[powerplay]

Other than drug deals, I wonder what all the $100 bills are used for? I never intentionally get one.

I'm curious about this also. Where are all those $100 bills going? I rarely have or hold one.

 

[frayne]

Heck, I carry $100 bills all the time.

 

[Midpack]

Heck, I carry $100 bills all the time.

I almost always carry at least one, and hold lots for emergency-emergency. So I guess it's me on the graph, sorry.

 

[Mulligan]

Carrying around money, I never do because many places I go don't take them. But when I make my quarterly visit to Vegas I load up on them. Bank Tellers probably think drug deal.

 

[JakeBrake]

Other than drug deals, I wonder what all the $100 bills are used for? I never intentionally get one.[/QUO

My emergency money is in $100 bills.

 

[Texas Proud]

Remember that a lot of those $100 bills keep foreign commerce humming along...

I have been to other countries where you can choose to take out either US money or local money... I have never seen one with any other currency....

 

[Tyro]

I'm curious about this also. Where are all those $100 bills going? I rarely have or hold one.

Casinos, race tracks, banks, and other venues that use or exchange large amounts of currency. The $100 bill is presently the largest denomination printed; larger denominations being phased out beginning in '69. I can recall seeing Monty Hall giving away $500 & $1000 bills on Let's Make a Deal when I was a kid.

Large denominations of United States currency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tyro

 

[2B]

Mine is in $20 bills. I feel it would be easier to use and the "keep the change" aspect that might be required would be reduced.

 

[Independent]

We do more cash and fewer plastic card transactions than most people. But, we don't carry anything bigger than $20s. My wallet isn't strained by carrying five $20s rather than one $100.

I'll guess the gov't could stop printing $100s and the only people significantly inconvenienced by that would be those involved in something illegal (where "illegal" includes hiding income from the IRS).

 

[marko]

My buddy works in a high(er) end restaurant with an older clientele. He gets one or two $100 bills a night.

 

[dmdunca44]

While my emergency money is in $20 bills, I like to give my grandkids a crisp $100 bill on their birthdays... (Am I the culprit?)

 

[Animorph]

My favorite ATM just started giving out $50's. Maybe they'll start pulling ahead now. The new $20? Perfect for all those raging inflation types.

 

[Sue J]

My emergency cash is in $20's. I have a stash of $50's too, that I've just kept when I encounter one. Maybe it's because Grant is such a dashing gentleman

The only time I had a lot of $100's was when my son was buying a car with cash. I had given him my old car. Later, it was totaled in an accident and I kept the settlement money in my savings account until he was ready to buy. When he found the car he wanted I got the cash and gave it to him to make the purchase. The seller was very impressed!

 

[cute fuzzy bunny]

I'm curious about this also. Where are all those $100 bills going? I rarely have or hold one.

Any time I get cash back at Walmart or Sams Club, they always quickly hand me a $100 and shut the drawer. Many places won't even take them, so I end up shoving it in the atm and having the atm give me back 20's. And when I get cash back at a walmart family store these days, I tell them before they open the drawer not to give me any $100's. Turns out they throw a $100 in each drawer and won't give the employees more cash than that for cash back because they don't trust them.

 

[Mulligan]

Any time I get cash back at Walmart or Sams Club, they always quickly hand me a $100 and shut the drawer. Many places won't even take them, so I end up shoving it in the atm and having the atm give me back 20's. And when I get cash back at a walmart family store these days, I tell them before they open the drawer not to give me any $100's. Turns out they throw a $100 in each drawer and won't give the employees more cash than that for cash back because they don't trust them.

"not to give me any $100's" - Bunny, when you ask for cash back you don't fool around do you! I think $40 is the most I have asked for in cash back at a store.

 

[sanfanciscotreat]

Very convenient to carry $500 in five bills for emergency money on a trip.
Gives you the option of using a credit card or cash and sometimes you can negotiate buying cheaper with cash.

 

[traineeinvestor]

Well, this explains the rise in the price of cotton: Cotton Prices Hit One-Month High - WSJ.com

 

[boont]

Back when I was working, I started stuffing $100 dollar bills in a file at home. After awhile it got to maybe $9,000. It was kind of cool to have cash I didn't need. Then I sold a major collectible for almost $10,000 and I added that. Then I sold an old car I had, also for cash. Now I was in the low twenties and I thought I better deposit it, but how? It was all in $100 dollar bills, that is all I kept in the file.

I decided to just go into several branches of the same bank and deposit it. One branch had a young male teller. When I dumped down just under $10,000 in hundreds, I heard him audibly gasp.

Surely these guys see lots of large cash deposits, don't they? This was in Marin County California. Maybe not.

 

[traineeinvestor]

I decided to just go into several branches of the same bank and deposit it. One branch had a young male teller. When I dumped down just under $10,000 in hundreds, I heard him audibly gasp.

Surely these guys see lots of large cash deposits, don't they? This was in Marin County California. Maybe not.

These days, USD 10,000 is the level at which cash transactions require reporting for anti-money laundering purposes: Money laundering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The bad guys and gals know this which makes deposits of just under USD10,000 in cash something of a red flag.

 

[cute fuzzy bunny]

Well, this explains the rise in the price of cotton: Cotton Prices Hit One-Month High - WSJ.com

3 Stooges-cotton - YouTube