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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gboulton, post: 1285540, member: 27043&quot;]You&#039;ll have to provide citations for that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Historically, the changing denomination of bills is CAUSED by prince instability, not causal to it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Secondarily, larger bills are the result of INflation, not DEflation.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m no longer missing it.&nbsp; I just don&#039;t think it&#039;s right.</p><p><br /></p><p>You believe the status quo should be maintained, since 1) there is little use for larger denomination bills&nbsp; 2) which will only lead to increased counterfeiting and 3) deflation.</p><p><br /></p><p>I believe I&#039;ve demonstrated points 2 and 3 to be wrong.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the third...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>1) I disagree, but of course there&#039;s no way to &quot;prove&quot; if I&#039;m smart with my money.&nbsp; I suppose we could start quoting bank balances, retirement plans, investment strategies, and net worth statements at each other...but that&#039;s neither wise, nor the point of this thread.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The argument that the &quot;risk&quot; is higher is bunk.&nbsp; First, it presumes the cash on hand is ALWAYS large, which clearly it needn&#039;t be, second it presumes those around you know the amount on hand.&nbsp; If the amount on hand is unknown...which, unless I&#039;m flashing it in public, it should be, then my risk is the same as any other random target.&nbsp; There&#039;s a $current_local_crime_rate percent chance I&#039;ll be the target of a robbery attempt.</p><p><br /></p><p>2) I&#039;m certainly none of the above.&nbsp; Of course, again, there&#039;s no way to prove that, so my refutation must stand on its own.</p><p><br /></p><p>3) I&#039;m not that either.&nbsp; See #2.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Sure.&nbsp; I get it.</p><p><br /></p><p>But no...I don&#039;t really want to take 2 bills when the option to pay with 1 exists....any more than a merchant WANTS to count 2 or 5 times as many notes as (s)he has to. Obviously, if that option doesn&#039;t exist, we&#039;ll do whatever the current denominations allow us to do.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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