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2008-10-09 Africa Subsaharan

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Posted by tipper 2008-10-09 07:26|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 Modern technology - your ticket to brand-new, dizzying innovations in hyperinflation!

At least in the old days, hyperinflation suffocated when the printers gave up and refused to keep printing. Now the only limitations are temporary and addressable by minor coding adjustments.

Until, I suppose, the communications network goes down.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2008-10-09 07:38|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2008-10-09 07:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Meanwhile, the UN says it needs $140m for food aid over the next six months.

Bugger off!

Posted by Besoeker 2008-10-09 08:15|| 2008-10-09 08:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Hey, Bob, just wipe out your credit market, crash your stock market and then print some more money...oh, wait, never mind.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-10-09 09:23|| 2008-10-09 09:23|| Front Page Top

#4 We must be on the five year Zimbobwe economic recapitalization plan.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-10-09 09:43|| 2008-10-09 09:43|| Front Page Top

#5 I guess they could always ask the whites to come back and run the country for them. But that would be "degrading". Much worse than the lingering death of famine and political upheaval.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-10-09 09:45|| 2008-10-09 09:45|| Front Page Top

#6 How can worthless money inflate?

Posted by DarthVader 2008-10-09 10:06|| 2008-10-09 10:06|| Front Page Top

#7 They've managed to accomplish all of this WITHOUT Franks, Dodd, Paulson and Bernanke? Amazing, absolutely amazing.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-10-09 10:29|| 2008-10-09 10:29|| Front Page Top

#8 B, it reminds me of ..."The circle is now complete. When I left you, I was but the learner; now *I* am the master."

Any amateur can pull down a country's finances, but to pull down an entire world's financial infrastructure takes real (non-)talent!

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-10-09 10:50|| 2008-10-09 10:50|| Front Page Top

#9 Bob's finance minister must have gone and got an MBA at an Ivy League school. But he never took mathematics seriously.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2008-10-09 11:14|| 2008-10-09 11:14|| Front Page Top

#10 I think his major qualifiction for the job was that he was Bob's personal banker.

Posted by tu3031 2008-10-09 14:23|| 2008-10-09 14:23|| Front Page Top

#11 I was told there would be no math

Posted by ZimBarbie">ZimBarbie 2008-10-09 18:56|| 2008-10-09 18:56|| Front Page Top

#12 This can't continue. At this rate Bob will exhaust the world's supply of paper. It's not fari soon my kids will have no paper to do their homework. We keep trying to get more paper for our printer but Staples and Wal-Mart are both out of everything except Zimbabwe dollars. We have had to dedicate one entire bathroom to beaching ZimBob dracma's back into usable white paper and let me tell you when his abuse of power shutdown the Charmin factory he made me one unhappy camper. I eat far too little ruffage to make wiping with African currency a comfortable experience.

Posted by Super Hose 2008-10-09 22:39|| 2008-10-09 22:39|| Front Page Top

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