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Want $500 million?
mookaloid - 15/5/08 at 06:48 PM

New $500 million dollar note

Would cost you about £1 at current exchange rates

matt_claydon - 15/5/08 at 07:01 PM

100% inflation weekly. So every month what you had at the beginning is worth 16 times less.

While we're on the subject of Zimbabwe, this makes pretty disturbing reading:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6275152.stm

theconrodkid - 15/5/08 at 07:06 PM

i wonder what all the hand wringing liberal lovies have to say about colonialism now?

mookaloid - 15/5/08 at 07:14 PM

quote:
Originally posted by matt_claydon
100% inflation weekly. So every month what you had at the beginning is worth 16 times less.

While we're on the subject of Zimbabwe, this makes pretty disturbing reading:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6275152.stm


I wish I hadn't read that

David Jenkins - 15/5/08 at 08:19 PM

quote:
Originally posted by matt_claydon
100% inflation weekly. So every month what you had at the beginning is worth 16 times less.


Sounds like Germany in the late 1930s - hope that isn't an omen...

Dangle_kt - 15/5/08 at 08:44 PM

The worlds broken isn't it.

Simon - 15/5/08 at 09:34 PM

No, it's just the tossers in power who are broken.

ATB

Simon

carpmart - 16/5/08 at 06:19 AM

quote:
Originally posted by mookaloid
quote:
Originally posted by matt_claydon
100% inflation weekly. So every month what you had at the beginning is worth 16 times less.

While we're on the subject of Zimbabwe, this makes pretty disturbing reading:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6275152.stm


I wish I hadn't read that


Me too - not nice!