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Africa Subsaharan
Zimbabwe introduces $100 trillion banknote
2009-01-17
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Posted by:ed

#5  When the revolution comes you'll get pictures of them hanging together on the back of a $500 bill.
Posted by: Hellfish   2009-01-17 18:10  

#4  The greenback version may be coming to a bank, liquor store or fireplace near you sooner than you think. All they're trying to figure out is whose picture to put on it- Chris Dodd or Bawney Fwank?
Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo)   2009-01-17 17:52  

#3  The article says it could buy three newspapers.
Posted by: Rednek Jim   2009-01-17 14:40  

#2  I am surprised that nobody has invented a car that burns paper money in Zimbabwe. You probably get more energy heat value out of the paper itself than out of the fuel the money would buy.
Posted by: crosspatch   2009-01-17 14:30  

#1  "to try to ease desperate cash shortages"

And a $100 trillion bill will do that how, exactly?

Ya' wanna ease something for yourselves, Zim? Off Bob.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2009-01-17 12:42  

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