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- UberC, on 07/24/2008, -1/+71You could pay off Dr. Evil with that
- machocheese34, on 07/24/2008, -1/+44i didn't know you could start a fire with just a banknote
- jjgames, on 07/23/2008, -1/+42Mugabe will probably start selling his currency on ebay so he can fund his crooked government.
- saxmaster, on 07/24/2008, -0/+36What the hell kind of car do Zimbabweans drive that requires a loaf of bread?
- mistafreeze, on 07/24/2008, -2/+36In Zimbabwe a 100 Billion = a Loaf of Bread.
In American 80$ = A tank of gas. - dboone74, on 07/24/2008, -0/+32They could just start using scientific notation on their bills.
- inactive, on 07/23/2008, -5/+32Soon it will be cheaper to start a fire with their banknotes than with a lighter..
- AmyVernon, on 07/23/2008, -3/+29it's time to revalue your money when you have a $1billion bill...
- slvrbullet87, on 07/24/2008, -0/+25Their feet
- wattzz, on 07/23/2008, -1/+26soon they will introduce a note worth eleventy billion dollars!
- ironeus, on 08/01/2008, -1/+25that is EXTREME inflation! so many ZEROs on that bill you may as well not even print the "1".
- TStanNY, on 07/24/2008, -1/+22At least the guy is a billionaire now
- zarcu, on 07/24/2008, -1/+21***** Quadrillionaires.
- nizzy1115, on 07/24/2008, -0/+19I kinda want one too.
- person425, on 07/24/2008, -0/+18The sad thing is that 100B won't even buy you a loaf of bread there (seriously).
They think they have a cash shortage because no one has enough cash to buy anything, so they "fix" the problem by printing more cash, which causes more inflation. A kid in their 20s with an associates degree in economics from a community college could run their economy better than them. - zbor, on 07/24/2008, -0/+17Uh, that's one way of looking at it. Another is that it's perhaps time to stop inflating your currency.
- megamod, on 07/23/2008, -1/+18they should just take out 6 zeroes and tell everyone that from now on it's implied that the bill's value is = bill * 10^6.unless they want a bill that looks like:
| 1000000000 |
| 0000000000 |
| 0000000000 | - NuclearIsShit, on 07/24/2008, -0/+17They should hang Mugabe
- salvisa, on 07/24/2008, -0/+16Did anybody else notice that 100 billion Z-Dollars was officially worth $5 in paragraph 10 but by the time you get to paragraph 17, it's only worth $4?
- machocheese34, on 07/24/2008, -2/+18Why so Burns can steal it?
- inactive, on 07/23/2008, -2/+15Just waiting for the $1 trillion bill.
- inactive, on 07/24/2008, -0/+13I always dream of wiping my ass with money.
- MrTito, on 07/24/2008, -0/+10I think I might buy one of these. Maybe their economy will turn around...
- teddyrux, on 07/24/2008, -1/+10I don't know who actually read that article from start to finish, but what began as an adventure on ebay became a haunting tragedy. Their economy is in shambles. Everybody is effectively poor; It's horrible!
It's pathetic that the only way an article about Zimbabwe's failing economy gets onto the front page is when some insensitive douchebag buys one of their hyper-inflated bank notes on ebay as a joke.
Digg me down, this comment isn't funny or clever. - Visual77, on 07/24/2008, -0/+9Actually, the inflation is estimated anywhere from 5,000,000% to 15,000,000%, depending on who you ask.
- Koush, on 07/24/2008, -0/+9I pity those who have to work out the change after someone buys items in Zimbabwe.
- zzz@tkz, on 07/24/2008, -0/+8Battle tank.
- jmpeagle, on 07/23/2008, -1/+8they'll have a trillion dollar bill by the end of the year given the 10,000% rates of inflation
- juliebubb, on 07/23/2008, -1/+8Totally bizarre...and we think inflation is bad in Ireland!
- kettlechips, on 07/24/2008, -0/+7If they keep printing this kind of money, of course inflation will be insane.
- greenlight2001, on 07/24/2008, -1/+8Rub them together really REALLY fast?
- inactive, on 07/23/2008, -1/+7superfragisticgajillion dollars
- inactive, on 07/24/2008, -1/+7Maybe it will improve everyones math skillz!
- digidelia, on 07/24/2008, -0/+6missing a few zeros, there
- igyigyigy, on 07/24/2008, -0/+5That's fast inflation!
- Hawk2007, on 07/24/2008, -1/+6ummm.... far from it.
- winampman2, on 07/24/2008, -1/+5The notes expire at the end of the year, so you'd have to spend it by Dec 31. Their economy wont be any better.
- Konrad9, on 07/24/2008, -0/+4Son of a.
I want to buy one of these but there's no way I'm spending that much. - Scottypants, on 07/24/2008, -2/+6Anybody see the pie eating contest photo on the right side of the article under "Top News Photos"?
http://o.aolcdn.com/www.aol.com.au/cppops/features ...
Oh, the irony... - sysop073, on 07/24/2008, -1/+5http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Inflation-1923. ...
- deadlift, on 07/24/2008, -0/+4Please forgive me if you were born with mental retardation, but 1 USD is equal to 18,681,527,512.36 ZWD.
- kettlechips, on 07/24/2008, -0/+4When I was in Harare two years ago, they had just switched to the new Zimbabwe Dollar which was worth 2000 old Zimbabwe Dollars. Evidently the benefits didn't last very long.
- novenator, on 07/24/2008, -0/+4maybe they will do what the Turks did, just drop the last 6 zeros (an old 1 million note now equals 1)
- inactive, on 07/24/2008, -1/+5Next - US dollar in the same place, payable with Euro.
- dpoon, on 07/24/2008, -0/+3Dear Sir,
Please provide your bank account information so that I can wire the funds to you. - Owwmykneecap, on 07/24/2008, -0/+3omg 4% doom...
thats what we been hearing for the last month. - vinod1978, on 07/24/2008, -1/+4Apparently, someone played the same trick on Bush. He still thinks having $3 trillion dollars of debt is better then having $1 billion of revenue.
- tdeveny, on 07/24/2008, -0/+3YeastUV
- NuclearIsShit, on 07/24/2008, -1/+4My f-150 cost that much to fill up here in Canada.
- vinod1978, on 07/24/2008, -0/+3Let's hope people in the US don't follow their trend - actually destroying some dollars might actually reduce inflation :)
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