5 Best Friday Columns

Timothy Noah on the Dumbness of $100 Bills   The government's inability to carry out Benjamin's latest makeover has prompted Slate 's Timothy Noah to ask, "why does the world need 1 billion $100 bills? Indeed, why does the U.S. continue to print C-notes at all?" Noah cites a 1976 essay that makes the case that organized crime and tax evasion are the only activities for which a person in the U.S ...