Small green papers

A couple of days ago I stumbled upon a piece of interesting information. Do you know, that in the United States of America 35 million bank notes to the amount of 635 million USD are printed EVERY DAY? I was really shocked, when I heard that. Of course, it is necessary to take into consideration the fact, that 95% of these “USD papers” are produced to replace old and worn-out ones, but the remaining 5% are also pretty big sum.

Just try to imagine, what an amount of costless money (just small green sheets of paper) is produced and thrown into the market every year! Only for 2005 the real cost of one USD bank note was only $0.057. Such facts really make me think about the current economic situation in the world…