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2008-07-30 Africa Subsaharan

Zimbabwe devalues currency; 10B becomes 1 dollar

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Posted by tu3031 2008-07-30 12:35|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 For all you collectors out there...

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=zimbabwe+money

Get em while they're hot.

Posted by tu3031 2008-07-30 13:15|| 2008-07-30 13:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Just think of all the savings they'll make in ink alone!!

Posted by AlanC"> AlanC 2008-07-30 14:37|| 2008-07-30 14:37|| Front Page Top

#3 a 10 billion dollar note to equal one zimdollar

For a moment I thought it read 'simdollar'.

Posted by Pappy 2008-07-30 15:03|| 2008-07-30 15:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Real Sims of course use Simoleons.

Posted by .5MT 2008-07-30 16:40|| 2008-07-30 16:40|| Front Page Top

#5 The computer game analogy will be complete when the country is finally taken over by a guild of Chinese gold farmers.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-07-30 16:43|| 2008-07-30 16:43|| Front Page Top

#6 1x10^10 bill. That is one heck of a note! Too bad nobody in ZimBob's cabinet took Economics 101 at Oxford.

Posted by Alaska Paul in Fairbanks">Alaska Paul in Fairbanks 2008-07-30 22:36|| 2008-07-30 22:36|| Front Page Top

#7 sorry, AP - I was finishing dinner

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-07-30 22:44|| 2008-07-30 22:44|| Front Page Top

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