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Re: Smuggling $134 billion in fake bonds
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:44:15 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: John Levine <johnl () iecc com> Date: June 18, 2009 6:21:04 AM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: Re: [IP] Smuggling $134 billion in fake bonds
Bloomberg has broken the wall of mainline US news censorship of an event like no other.
That's certainly true -- I haven't seen such credulous, irresponsible, uninformed speculation in the mainstream media for, gosh, a couple of days now. Andrew Leonard in Salon has a much better article, which reports that this isn't the first time someone's tried to peddle fake $500M "Federal Reserve bonds": http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/06/15/mystery_bonds/index.html Don't miss the Youtube video which shows some of the crudest looking forgeries I've ever seen, with soothing background music by Brahms and Debussy. R's, John ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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