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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;C Jay, post: 1632476, member: 13184&quot;]The Chinese will be fine as long as the new billion dollars will buy what a trillion does today.&nbsp; The value is shifted on both sides of the ledger, but only the marker changes.&nbsp; If the problem is: A.) Nickels and cents cost more to make than face value, and B.) Paper dollars are less economical than coin dollars, but no one wants one, then a decimal shift makes perfect sense.&nbsp; It provides a currency that people are used to, in denominations that they are used to.&nbsp; The cent will have the purchasing power of a dime.&nbsp; If a cent cost 2.5 cent to make now, then revalued it would cost a quarter cent to make.&nbsp; New paper currency will need to be printed, but could be traded out in short order.&nbsp; A new $1.00 Hamilton, new $2.00 Jackson, new $5.00 Grant, and new $10.00 Franklin note would reduce the confusion.&nbsp; Loose and circulating coins would increase in value, but this would be more than offset by the reduced cost of having to maintain only 10% of the current circulating currency, and not having to honor the stacks of cash that didn’t make it to the laundry mat on time in Columbia.&nbsp; If doing away with the cent and nickel is what you want then fine.&nbsp; That leaves us with 2 circulating coins that people are willing to accept, the dime and the quarter.&nbsp; One day when no one is willing to pick up a dime, then I guess the only coins we’ll see will be in mint set.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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