A License to Print Money
Do you remember playing Monopoly as a kid and wishing that the colored bills handed out at the beginning of the game were real? From there your mind might have wandered – the $5 bill in your pocket was only just a piece of paper. Why couldn’t you print your own? For most of us, such money-making schemes ended after our fruitless attempts at creating a George Washington with a piece of paper and a green crayon. But for two Milwaukee neighborhoods, the idea of printing your own cash is still alive.