Joe Pinsker

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · How Printing Fake Money Helped People Manage Their Cash · 12 Dec 2023 podcast

That's sort of the main part of these companies' businesses. matched

But the funny thing is that they said there are all sorts of other types of customers who end up reaching out to them. matched

One of them said that they end up selling prop money to banks for training purposes. matched

Another said that everyday people actually kind of like to buy fake cash just to put on their desk as a sort of inspiration for success. matched

There really are a lot of uses out there. matched

This is an important feature. matched

These businesses want to be careful and make sure that their money isn't regarded as counterfeit currency. matched

So they make some tweaks to visual details. matched

For instance, they change the portraits of the founding fathers like Benjamin Franklin. matched

His face is slightly different. matched

And they will also put on text that says for motion picture use only. matched

Things that would distinguish it from real money if somebody's holding it in their hand and looking at it, but that might not be noticed on screen. matched

Yeah, this was one thing that I was really interested in when I was working on this story, because I think a lot about the effect that money has on people. matched

And I thought that these people would have such an interesting insight into that effect. matched

Probably the best person to answer that is a guy named RJ Rappaport from Atlanta. matched

He has a prop company and they make a lot of fake money for movies and TV shows. matched

And he said that in his offices, they have a room that workers call the money room. matched

It's basically 20 feet of shelving with money in all sorts of forms. matched

He's listed out stacks, bundles, cubes, rolls, all sorts of things. matched

And he said that uniformly, the reaction that people have when they walk in is they burst out laughing. matched

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