It's Only Money

Don't worry we'll make more.

As a metaphor for our troubled economic and financial era -- and the government's stumbling response -- this one's hard to beat. You can't stimulate the economy via the money supply, after all, if you can't print the money correctly.

Because of a problem with the presses, the federal government has shut down production of its flashy new $100 bills, and has quarantined more than 1 billion of them -- more than 10 percent of all existing U.S. cash -- in a vault in Fort Worth, Texas, reports CNBC.

How inept can we be? We can't keep Howdy Doody from spilling state secrets nor can we print the dollars our government thinks we need so badly to keep their great ponzi scheme in action.