{"id":44323,"date":"2019-03-09T09:29:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T14:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44323"},"modified":"2019-03-09T09:29:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T14:29:56","slug":"fake-moneys-face-value-deceit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44323","title":{"rendered":"Fake Money\u2019s Face Value Deceit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fake Money\u2019s Face Value Deceit<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Shane Anthony Mele stumbled off the straight and narrow path many years ago.  One bad decision here.  Another there.  And he was neck deep in the smelly stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These missteps compounded over the years and also magnified his natural shortcomings.  Namely, that he\u2019s a thief and \u2013 to be polite \u2013 a moron.  Recently the confluence of these two failings came together like a sewage spill to a river draining through the center of town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mele made a dishonest mistake.  He failed to recognize that he\u2019s not the only dishonest soul operating in a dishonest world.  That is, he failed to comprehend the difference between face value and real value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So it was, with dishonest intentions, that he burgled a rare coin collection with no clue what it was that he\u2019d taken.  To his soft and greedy mind all he saw was a hoard of coins with a face value of One Dollar.  Thus, he redeemed them for cash.  Zero Hedge<\/a> offers the details:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAfter stealing a rare coin collection from an elderly and disabled retiree, Shane Anthony Mele, dumped what their owner said was at least $33,000 worth of collectible coins down a Coin Star machine at a Florida supermarket and collected their face value, receiving about $30 \u2013 enough for a couple of 12 packs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Downright Disgrace<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mele, no doubt, is a thief and a moron.  He\u2019s also a thief and a moron that got caught up in something he doesn\u2019t understand.  He may be dishonest.  But the world he\u2019s operating in is also dishonest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stealing someone else\u2019s property and then reducing the spoils valued at $33,000 to a payout of about $30 is a remarkable achievement.  Mele\u2019s Coin Star transaction delivered a loss of over 99.9 percent.  But he\u2019s not alone\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fake Money\u2019s Face Value Deceit Shane Anthony Mele stumbled off the straight and narrow path many years ago.  One bad decision here.  Another there.  And he was neck deep in the smelly stuff. These missteps compounded over the years and also magnified his natural shortcomings.  Namely, that he\u2019s a thief and \u2013 to be polite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17132,12043,303,426,11763,536],"class_list":["post-44323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-digital-money","tag-economic-prism","tag-fed","tag-inflation","tag-mn-gordon","tag-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44324,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44323\/revisions\/44324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}