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[Video] Just some silly counterfeiters, nothing to worry about [Updated]

Posted on June 18, 2009 by stacyherbert| 57 Comments

Stacy Summary: Somehow the news anchor’s delivery of this public service announcement just seems so perfect for this story. Just keep moving on, folks. Nothing to see here.

Stacy: This just in from @gina:

Italian man caught at Swiss border with 20 billion in ‘fake’ Japanese bonds

Stacy: This is very strange if true. There is only this one reference to the story on google news. Another batch of ‘fake’ bonds crossing the border at same point? What the heck is up? Economic war from North Korea? Someone is trying to get attention it seems.

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Tagged $134.5 billion, counterfeit bonds, italy, japanese nationals

$134.5 billion in US bonds seized at Italian-Swiss border

Posted on June 11, 2009 by stacyherbert| 50 Comments

Stacy Summary: Here are the links for the biggest story of today . . . that hasn’t made it to one single main stream media news outlet in US or UK as far as I can tell. That’s pretty amazing in itself.

US government securities worth $134.5 billion seized from Japanese nationals at Italian border

What caught the policemen’s attention were the billion dollar securities. Such a large denomination is not available in regular financial and banking markets. Only states handle such amounts of money.