Loopy signature likely on every US bill if Lew made Treasury Secretary
Likely new US Treasury Secretary has an odd, slinky-like signature to mark every US dollar bill
The venerable greenback could soon be bearing a signature that looks like an over-stretched slinky if, as expected, the White House names Jacob "Jack" Lew to head the US Treasury.
The Treasury Secretary's most visible role is signing, electronically, every US banknote printed while holding the post.
Most of the recent secretaries, including outgoing Timothy Geithner, get away with generally legible, if not elegant, scrawls.
But after the White House hinted that Lew would be nominated to replace Geithner, attention focused not on his budgeting acumen but on how his undeniably bizarre signature could change the face of the greenback.
An example from a September 2011 White House memorandum is a series of nine loops with a tail at the end.
It's a stylised scribble - it starts off with large loops, narrows at the middle and then grows back to large circles at the end - but the name behind it is absolutely indecipherable.