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2008-05-22 Africa Subsaharan

You go, Bob! Zimbabwe inflation now over 1 million percent!

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Posted by gorb 2008-05-22 03:48|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Damn! He's good!

Posted by Tiny Snoque2251 2008-05-22 07:17|| 2008-05-22 07:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Rest assured, the Fed has dispatched bureaucrats to the scene to pick up pointers on how do destroy value.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-05-22 08:06|| 2008-05-22 08:06|| Front Page Top

#3 "Introducing the new 500,000,000 bearer cheque for your convenience," read a Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe full-page advert in the state daily, The Herald, displaying specimens of the new note.

Here's an idea. Instead of taking out ads, why don't they cut down on the middleman and just print them in the newspaper?
I mean, what's the friggin difference...

Posted by tu3031 2008-05-22 09:31|| 2008-05-22 09:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Are you kidding? Between the time the paper is printed and the morning news delivery, the currency will have already lost 90% of it's value.

Posted by ed 2008-05-22 09:52|| 2008-05-22 09:52|| Front Page Top

#5 "We're number 1!!!"

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-05-22 11:40|| 2008-05-22 11:40|| Front Page Top

#6 If it works anything like the U.S. does, the the richest 0.5% of Zimbabweans are getting so filthy rich that they cant find a yacht big enough to hold their new helicopter.
In a short time, a few hundred thousand people are going to possess virtually all the worlds wealth.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-05-22 12:39|| 2008-05-22 12:39|| Front Page Top

#7 If it's printed on the right kind of paper it could at least be worth something as toilet paper.

Posted by Menhadden Snogum6713 2008-05-22 15:42|| 2008-05-22 15:42|| Front Page Top

#8 100 million Zimbabwe dollars 30 U.S. cents

Is it too late to inject some sense into Zimbob?
To stop this runaway inflation they need to exchange ALL their "Currency" for some other, such as Euros or US Dollars where they DON"T control the value, then burn it all and stay as a "Foreign" Currency nation.

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-05-22 20:07|| 2008-05-22 20:07|| Front Page Top

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