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| Thread ID: 92139 | 2008-07-30 19:31:00 | Bad economy? No problem, just knock off 10 zeros!! | Strommer (42) | PC World Chat |
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| 693612 | 2008-07-30 19:31:00 | Think that New Zealand's economy is in trouble? Not compared to the economic meltdown in Zimbabwe, where their answer to near-valueless currency is to knock off ten zeros from the currency. 100,000,000,000.00 (a hundred billion) becomes ten dollars, and a tin of beans will no longer cost 6 billion dollars but only 60 cents. It also means that coins will suddenly have value (at least for awhile). See article here (www.timesonline.co.uk). Or if The Times Online is too dry for you, try this article (rustygate.org) written by a witty sarcastic black Zimbabwean guy that includes profanities and reader comments. |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 693613 | 2008-07-30 19:42:00 | Silly move ! Their whole population would soon have got into Forbes richest 500 ! And it won't help sales of wheelbarrows for guys to take their pay home in, like they did in Germany in the 1930's. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 693614 | 2008-07-30 19:48:00 | :lol: ... Funny comments from Digg.com: If you're not making $500,000,000,000/year anymore, that must really impact your self-esteem. Eventually in Zimbabwe, a Google will be worth 1$ to some Yahoo. how f****** long does it take to feed a soda machine over there....???.... :nerd: that'd be cuil. :| |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 693615 | 2008-07-30 20:05:00 | And Zimbabwes top game show was "Everyones a Millionaire" |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 693616 | 2008-07-30 20:06:00 | And it won't help sales of wheelbarrows for guys to take their pay home in, like they did in Germany in the 1930's. I remember that picture from social studies |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 693617 | 2008-07-30 22:47:00 | And what do they do with all those leftover zeros? Add them to the IQ of the ruling party - no change. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 693618 | 2008-07-30 23:48:00 | I remember that picture from social studies Holy crap. Me too. Was on the back wall. |
Jams (1051) | ||
| 693619 | 2008-07-31 00:02:00 | I saw that pic in year 9 Economics (that's 3rd form for you old-timers :D) Teacher asked us what we thought they were doing - someone said robbing a bank :lol: |
jwil1 (65) | ||
| 693620 | 2008-07-31 01:38:00 | He is a commo mate of Zqwert. Right up old Zqwerts alley. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 693621 | 2008-07-31 03:27:00 | In some cases the paper was worth more than the value printed on it. Like 1c and 2c pieces, and more recently the 5c. |
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