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Zimbabwe introduces $100 billion banknotes
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| July 19, 2008
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Posted on 07/19/2008 12:35:38 PM PDT by Abathar
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Good grief, a kid has to have a 10 million dollar bill just to buy a penny gumball.
On the bright side the people there are getting really good at figuring large numbers in their head though...
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posted on
07/19/2008 12:35:39 PM PDT
by
Abathar
To: Abathar
(Dave Chappelle) - “I’M RICH, BEE-YOTCH!”
To: Abathar
Why don’t they just drop the zeros?
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posted on
07/19/2008 12:37:33 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
To: Abathar
This is where Dem/Lib/Socialist/Commie leadership will get us.
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posted on
07/19/2008 12:37:40 PM PDT
by
K-oneTexas
(I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
To: Abathar
No, you need a billion dollars to buy that penny candy.
Something is wrong there...
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posted on
07/19/2008 12:39:06 PM PDT
by
zeebee
To: Abathar
Zimbabwe Monopoly:
"Go to jail! Do not pass GO, do not collect $2T trillion dollars."
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posted on
07/19/2008 12:39:33 PM PDT
by
quark
To: quark
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posted on
07/19/2008 12:40:44 PM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: Abathar
Stoking the furnace with bills, Weimar Germany.
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posted on
07/19/2008 12:41:38 PM PDT
by
Kozak
(Anti Shahada: There is no god named Allah, and Muhammed is a false prophet)
To: Abathar
The new note is equal to just one U.S. dollar Holy cow, last week I think $1 US Dollar = $28 Billion Zimbabwe Dollars! It's freefalling into a bottomless pit.
To: Abathar
troubled central bank Troubled?
The "economy" in Zimbabwe has collapsed.
That's um, "troubled"?
Imagine if Mugabe were a white male, instead of the Saintly Revolutionary Who Overthrew the Evil Ian Smith.
The term for monetary collapse would be quite a bit harsher.
But not when you're a tribalist thug. Then you get a pass from all the filth who trumpeted your ascendancy 25 years ago as The Second Coming and the End of Injustice.
Far be it from them to admit their monstrous mistake.
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posted on
07/19/2008 12:43:18 PM PDT
by
Regulator
(Obama = Mugabe)
To: LibWhacker
>>>
It's[Zim $] freefalling into a bottomless pit. <<<
Your right - the change in value certainly isn't because the US dollar has risen in value!!
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posted on
07/19/2008 12:46:09 PM PDT
by
HardStarboard
(Take No Prisoners - We're Out O)
To: Abathar
What was that earlier government in history that had to do that???? Oh yeah,.. the Wiemar Republic.
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posted on
07/19/2008 12:46:24 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
To: Abathar
Look at the upside - they can finally pay this guy off.
"Ok then, we hold the world ransom for 100 Billion dollars!"
To: Abathar
One again, the brilliant revolutionary Robert Mugabe proves his genius, as he trains the kids of Zimbabwe to use scientific notation to buy gum-balls.
Comin' up next, the Avogadro Note: 6.022 * 10^23 Zimbabwe dollars = 1 US dime.
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posted on
07/19/2008 12:55:38 PM PDT
by
FredZarguna
(In vino Possumus.)
To: Abathar
Socialism works!
Everyone in Zimbabwe is a Billionaire!
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posted on
07/19/2008 12:57:30 PM PDT
by
Wil H
To: Abathar
Well the first thing you know ol’ Mogufu’s a billionaire...
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posted on
07/19/2008 12:57:41 PM PDT
by
Krankor
(N)
To: Abathar
Alas, thanks to Greenspan(shorting the CC stocks) and now Bernanke (Helicopter Ben)we are heading in the same direction...
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posted on
07/19/2008 12:57:52 PM PDT
by
Fred
(The Democrat Party is the Nadir of Nilhilism)
To: Perdogg
Why dont they just drop the zeros?They've bin there, done that..
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posted on
07/19/2008 12:58:40 PM PDT
by
Wil H
To: Abathar
With inflation like that, money and savings have no value. Thus all become equally poor and miserable (except the ruling elite). Marxism in action.
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posted on
07/19/2008 1:07:04 PM PDT
by
BooksForTheRight.com
(Fight liberal lies with knowledge. Read conservative books and articles.)
To: Abathar
They still contract a European company to produce the notes using quality paper and lithography. Might be interesting to squirrel one away just for future collector value. You don’t see notes issued in denominations of 10^11 everyday.
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posted on
07/19/2008 1:08:05 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
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