Politics Chatter Politics Chatter  POLITICS CHATTER: So how
’bout them new $100 bills?  POLITICS CHATTER: A press conference
to showcase the new, state-of-the-art $100 bill, leads
contributing editor Mark Bourrie to ponder the nature of money,
trust, and scary debt loads  In a drawer somewhere, I have a
nickel-sized coin of the Roman emperor Gallienus (ruled 253-268
AD). Gallienus is long-forgotten, but he shouldn’t be. He is one
of the true fathers of inflation, and there should be a statue
to him on the Acropolis in Athens and in the lobby of every
government’s central bank.   And he fretted over his finances.
The resulting carnage left Gallienus and his entire family dead,
his statues smashed, and his monuments pulled down. Geneologists
re-wrote family histories to erase Gallienus.  I bring up poor
Gallienus just hours after seeing Canada’s new polymer $100
bills. I was at a news conference where these bills were handed
out to reporters. We had to give them back, but, while we had
them, I went at mine w