We'll be there shortly.
What loafs of bread? There won’t be any food on the streets to buy no matter how many wheelbarrows full of federal reserves notes you have.
“...a piece of bread will buy a bag of gold. I wish we’d all been ready...”
Just a song that keeps poppin’ into my head.
Remember the stories about Germany - people pushing around wheelbarrows full of money to buy a loaf of bread?
Could get even worse than that.
HARARE, Zimbabwe, April 25 — “How bad is inflation in Zimbabwe? Well, consider this: at a supermarket near the center of this tatterdemalion capital, toilet paper costs $417.”
“No, not per roll. Four hundred seventeen Zimbabwean dollars is the value of a single two-ply sheet. A roll costs $145,750 —”
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/02/world/africa/02zimbabwe.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
That was in 2006.
Nah, I’ll just whip out one of my silver quarters from all of my metal detecting and buy a week’s worth of food.