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- Lucas123, on 01/16/2009, -2/+331Zimbabwe treasurer: Mr. President, our economy's in the toilet and the value of our money is next to nothing.
Zimbabwe president: You fool. Just print money with bigger numbers!
(Do I have to think of everything around here!?!) - pkjohnson17, on 01/16/2009, -2/+260i'll drop 30 dollars just to be able to say im a multi-trillionaire....in zimbabwe
- Dead666, on 01/16/2009, -1/+161That country is ***** up
- BullHunter, on 01/16/2009, -1/+158There's a price on Mugabe's head: 100 Million Gazillion Dollars!
- avsfan987, on 01/17/2009, -7/+150Enjoy your AIDS
- inactive, on 01/17/2009, -0/+128May I have a check please?
Yes, it will be 127 trillion, Sir.
Here is 150 trillion, keep the change. - Gnarstache, on 01/17/2009, -1/+91for $575 you can BUY Zimbabwe
- inactive, on 01/17/2009, -3/+93lol, i don't have to move there. apparently, i have a long lost cousin living there that left me with 100,000 usd. sucks for you though.
- PhotoJoe83, on 01/17/2009, -0/+86It won't be long till they start using scientific notation in their currency. Wanna cheeseburger? That'll be $5.5×10^11!
- inactive, on 01/17/2009, -9/+93I really did think this was an Onion article at first.
- martalli, on 01/16/2009, -2/+76Zimbabwean currency: brought to you by Dr. Evil
- compulsive1, on 01/17/2009, -3/+75They are doing it wrong.
They should stimulate the economy through large cash infusions. Wait, never mind.... - Brassbud, on 01/17/2009, -1/+64Unless you're flat broke in USD (or some other valuable currency) you should be able to become a quadrillionaire with no problem.
Imagine if Bill Gates moved to Zimbabwe... - cyrix, on 01/17/2009, -3/+62THAT'S OVER 9000!
- mecharabbit, on 01/17/2009, -2/+60Zimbabwe treasurer: Yes Mr. President, just please don't cut my limbs off with a machete.
- Thousand, on 01/17/2009, -0/+58Like anyone is gonna risk their lives to kill that guy for $178.56
- kero552, on 01/16/2009, -5/+62Assistent: Mr. President, our money is completely worthless, our education, industry and farming has fallen apart. Cholera is spreading, third of population has fled country, famine is eminent, opposition has won last election, university professors are selling themselves as prostitues.
Mungabe: Can we supply my family and troops with good food, hard currency and allow them to exploit country to the extent unimaginable to the rest of the world?
Assistent: Yes, we can. People are starving, dying and have nothing, they literally have no power to fight back, if they had, they would use it to feed their children.
Mungabe: See, no problem. - jocnnor, on 01/17/2009, -1/+53"Fiscal policy!" whopped Ford Prefect, "Fiscal policy!"
The Management Consultant gave him a look that only a lungfish could have copied.
"Fiscal policy..." he repeated, "that is what I said."
"How can you have money," demanded Ford, "if none of you actually produces anything? It doesn't grow on trees you know."
"If you would allow me to continue..."
Ford nodded dejectedly.
"Thank you. Since we decided a few weeks ago to adopt the leaf as legal tender, we have, of course, all become immensely rich."
Ford stared in disbelief at the crowd who were murmuring appreciatively at this and greedily fingering the wads of leaves with which their track suits were stuffed.
"But we have also," continuded the Management Consultant, "run into a small inflation problem on account of the high level of leaf availability, which means that, I gather, the current going rate has something like three deciduous forests buying one ship's peanut." - Cancerous, on 01/17/2009, -0/+47Your only tipping eight dollars? On a 127 trillion dollar bill? Cheap ass.
Oh, I have to convert both numbers? - kero552, on 01/16/2009, -0/+47They already chopped 10 zeros (~half a year ago). Banking software had some problems with such amounts :)
They just started the cycle all over again. I should probably congratulate them to achieve it again in such a short time. Impressive indeed. No idea why they use money for anything except toilet paper and fire fuel... Oh, no winter. - inactive, on 01/17/2009, -7/+50Hell, I'm moving to Zimbabwe just so I can say I'm a trillionaire.
I'm gonna make it rain on those Zimbabwian hos! - masamunecyrus, on 01/17/2009, -0/+43 Zimbabwe has the highest inflation rate in the world: 41,900,000,000,000,000,000 percent.
- inactive, on 01/17/2009, -2/+41Online account has been created. I'll send you the details. Deposit all your money over there. I promise you to return trillion times the money that you'll deposit.
- thedrue, on 01/17/2009, -0/+38Its almost like they're trying to fuel their own inflation. When are they going to figure out that printing larger and larger bank notes does not help the economy?
- phrstbrn, on 01/17/2009, -0/+38I remember reading a while back that store owners would only accept checks if they wrote them out for DOUBLE the price.
Inflation is so high there, by the time a check clears, the dollar's value would have halved. - staffa, on 01/17/2009, -0/+34No, it was after WW1, when Germany was forced to pay off the war debts of the winning side(as well as their own debts) it bankrupt the country and sent it down the road to massive inflation. From which Hitler and the nazi arose, blaming the Jews for the problems and well, led to WW2.
After WW2, the marshal plan was initiated which was the exact opposite of the post WW1 plan, the winning countries(namely the USA) payed for the reconstruction of the German infrastructure. - RhymeOrReason, on 01/17/2009, -0/+33Could you imagine the poor bastard's face when the cashier doesn't have change for a trillion?
- polypropglop, on 01/17/2009, -3/+34W. should be the president on the US $100 trillion banknote.
- cowsgonemadd3, on 01/17/2009, -12/+43Sounds like the USA lately....
- s0m31john, on 01/17/2009, -3/+31Don't you just love fiat currency?
- tendonut, on 01/17/2009, -0/+27It must be nice to hold 20x the GDP of Zimbabwe in your hand.
- Dougman82, on 01/17/2009, -0/+25How many acronyms must the interwebs spawn? Maybe I'll just stop speaking in sentences altogether.
- Ovalteen, on 01/17/2009, -0/+24That's change you can believe in.
(For at least the next 15 minutes, until it devalues again) - JaredMcCammon, on 01/17/2009, -0/+24100 Trillion Dollar Pyramid.
- Dougman82, on 01/17/2009, -3/+25Yeah, and then you'll have some warlords drop by for a house warming visit.
- jdh24, on 01/16/2009, -2/+24The cause and (temporary) solution are the same when it comes to hyperinflation.
Fun advice for Zimbabwe: chop 12 zeros from your bills, tie the money supply to something (like population) and get that ***** under control. - cheezintern, on 01/17/2009, -0/+22central banks/governments control the supply of currency. When people can get a better deal buying/selling money through non-legal means, black markets arise.
- XeroXenith, on 01/17/2009, -3/+24There's a difference between economic turbulence and economic plane crashes.
- oboshoe, on 01/17/2009, -4/+24Proably about 5 minutes after the US figures out the same thing.
We don't print bigger notes. We just make electronic entries into a ledger and call them "bailouts" - schlicta, on 01/17/2009, -3/+23Are they giving it to Mr. Burns?
- egaonogenkiII, on 01/17/2009, -2/+21They won't use exponential form because the education system's in the toilet, too. Not enough Zimbabweans will know how to read exponents.
- inactive, on 01/17/2009, -0/+18Currency = Dollar ($) (ZWD)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwe
Dude your ignorance is showing. - cyrix, on 01/17/2009, -9/+27Oh please.... We will NEVER hit that level. You're insane to even think we will become that ***** destitute.
- qh4dotcom, on 01/17/2009, -0/+18I bought three crisp Z$100 billion notes on Ebay several months ago for $13.50....The bank of Zimbabwe chopped off 10 zeroes...at the time it was the highest denomination of currency ever issued by a government....now I need to get that $100 trillion note :(
- inactive, on 01/17/2009, -5/+22Probably since we go through a recession every now and then, a long time. Sorry, I know you want it to happen, since you can blame all your lack of success in your life on the economy.
- GianDoe, on 01/17/2009, -0/+17@ elysia05
I would strongly advise against further communication with them, it's a scam run by a ruthless African gang. The FBI has put a team together and are currently investigating, but we'll need you to cover additional travel costs. - oboshoe, on 01/17/2009, -4/+21Buy Gold.
Unless we stop these runaway government bailouts financed by printing money, this is our future. - C00LI0, on 01/17/2009, -1/+18for $300 you could be a zillionaire
- Snooper1989, on 01/17/2009, -2/+17TSHTF - The ***** hits the fan
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