The Money Factory

03/14/2008 Mises Wire Stephan Kinsella

So I’m sitting here in the Massey Library at the Mises Institute watching on the closed circuit TV the lectures by Joe Salerno and others in the Schlarbaum Seminar Room. Salerno mentioned that a $100 bill cost about 2 cents to print. Gil Guillory and I got curious about this and so I googled it. It seems Joe was in the ballpark, but during the search I ended up stumbling upon the site for the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Its website is, I kid you not, www.MoneyFactory.gov. I suspect they did this with a complete lack of irony.

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