What about counterfeit dollars?

"It is a move forward towards cracking this menace - which robs our inventors, designers and creative artists of their just rewards, which destroys jobs and threatens our health and safety,"

Meh, it's pretty small change. Walk down the highstreet and you see thousands of shops all selling real goods, and on Sunday in the second hand market, only a single dodgy Chinese 'yPod' or somesuch, which nobody thinks is an iPod and doesn't rob Apple because nobody who wants an iPod would buy it thinking it was one...

For all the talk, it's all a tiny problem.

On the other hand, those dollars Geithner is creating by his financial fun-gineering, look exactly like real dollars, and he intents to pass of several trillion of them onto unsuspecting punters.... now there's a world class counterfeiting operation if ever I've heard one!

It's pretty difficult to get serious about some petty little problem, when the whole basis for money, the core of capitalism, is being threatened by the worlds biggest Ponzi scheme and nobody outside of the financial press is reporting it:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aKm0M7RHXDoQ