I had a couple of comments regarding your article. For the most part I enjoyed your article but I disagree with your analysis of the car alarms in Russia. I wouldn't say that installing car alarms made things easier for car thiefs. Having to kill someone to steal a car isn't making things easier its making them more risky for the theif. It obviously did have unintended consequences for the people who had the alarms installed which is the point you were trying to make.

Also, I liked your analysis of the counterfeiting of the $100 bill at the beginning of the article. I had not heard this particular theory in regards to the large number of $100 bill forgeries. The theory I here most often is that columbian druglords had figured out a way to "bleach" the dye off of a $1 bill and then use that to make $100 bills. That's quite a nice return on your investment :)

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