mookaloid
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posted on 15/5/08 at 06:48 PM |
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Want $500 million?
New $500 million dollar note
Would cost you about £1 at current exchange rates
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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matt_claydon
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| posted on 15/5/08 at 07:01 PM |
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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
 
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theconrodkid
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| posted on 15/5/08 at 07:06 PM |
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i wonder what all the hand wringing liberal lovies have to say about colonialism now?
who cares who wins
pass the pork pies
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mookaloid
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| posted on 15/5/08 at 07:14 PM |
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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 
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 15/5/08 at 08:19 PM |
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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...
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Dangle_kt
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| posted on 15/5/08 at 08:44 PM |
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The worlds broken isn't it.
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Simon
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| posted on 15/5/08 at 09:34 PM |
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No, it's just the tossers in power who are broken.
ATB
Simon
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carpmart
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| posted on 16/5/08 at 06:19 AM |
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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!
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