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2007-12-01 Africa Subsaharan

Zimbabwe: Minister Presents Zim$7,8 Quadrillion Budget

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Posted by Fred 2007-12-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Iff I remember correctly, LUCIANNE > CHINA may need only US$27.0 Bilyuhn, NOT QUADRILYUHN, to clean its environment.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-12-01 00:08|| 2007-12-01 00:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Last I heard, Bob was going to issue a decree establishing "gazillion" as an actual numerical unit...

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2007-12-01 00:33|| 2007-12-01 00:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Last I heard, Bob was going to issue a decree establishing "gazillion" as an actual numerical unit...

Bah! It's a "bazillion" and I'll bet one thousand Zimbabwe dollars on it!!!

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-12-01 02:49|| 2007-12-01 02:49|| Front Page Top

#4 1 khabluhien dollars! (pinky to mouth)

Seriously, trying to figure out a curve on this chart is making my head spin backways. I can't seem to figure out what factor to take the 'over time'.

Maybe with enough zeros behind the 1, and if you stare at the bill long enough, you see a ~~sailboat~~ 18oz Prime Rib in 3D.

-Serious note (which does not depreciate in the terms of milliseconds bu dump ching) I am watching the chinese; they seem to have a fixation on east coast africa.

Posted by swksvolFF 2007-12-01 03:07|| 2007-12-01 03:07|| Front Page Top

#5 They're going to have to start a new metric for inflation - the mean time between having to chop three zeros off the currency!

Posted by gorb 2007-12-01 03:32|| 2007-12-01 03:32|| Front Page Top

#6 Analysts said the budget was devoid of any policies that will solve the fundamental problems of foreign currency shortages, inflation and slumped production levels.

Oh, so you wanna get picky...

Posted by tu3031 2007-12-01 10:09|| 2007-12-01 10:09|| Front Page Top

#7 Only Bob could devalue the zero.

Posted by Grunter 2007-12-01 10:32|| 2007-12-01 10:32|| Front Page Top

#8 Soon they will have to pay people to haul ZimBobs to the dump.

Posted by ed 2007-12-01 10:37|| 2007-12-01 10:37|| Front Page Top

#9 Only Bob could devalue the zero

Grunter, give the Donks half a chance. O'Bob and thems have shown about equal skill in understanding basic economics.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-12-01 12:01|| 2007-12-01 12:01|| Front Page Top

#10 And the Democrats are slack jawed with envy.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-12-01 12:47|| 2007-12-01 12:47|| Front Page Top

#11 I don't think the economic impact of Bob's policies are equally distributed. I think Congress should commission a study of the consequences of the situation in Zimbabwe with respect to coin collectors, stamp collectors and toilet paper manufacturers.

Posted by Super Hose 2007-12-01 13:19|| 2007-12-01 13:19|| Front Page Top

#12 Zim Bob's currency can be easily explained using semi-log graph paper. Then inflation is a straight line.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-12-01 13:28|| 2007-12-01 13:28|| Front Page Top

#13 I'm reminded of the old story of post-war germany, where a man hauled a wheelbarow of cash to the grocery, went in to check prices, and someone dumped his cash on the street, then stole his wheelbarrow.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-12-01 14:27|| 2007-12-01 14:27|| Front Page Top

#14 I think Congress should commission a study of the consequences of the situation in Zimbabwe with respect to coin collectors, stamp collectors and toilet paper manufacturers.

Except for coins, there's not much difference between Zimbob stamps and toilet paper these days - they're both worth about the same. This stamp collector found the solution by not collecting shiny pieces of paper (can't really call them "stamps", which are supposed to prepay postage") from Zimbobland issued after Dec 31, 1990.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-12-01 14:27|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-12-01 14:27|| Front Page Top

#15 7.8 quadrillion Zimbabwe dollars - that works out to about a buck and a half.

Posted by DMFD 2007-12-01 15:47|| 2007-12-01 15:47|| Front Page Top

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