Comments on: Hyperinflation: In Zimbabwe, Everyone's a Multi-Billionaire

By: Sid Morrison

Sid Morrison — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:37:58 +0000

@cleek-
Great observation! What a bunch of morons.

By: cleek

cleek — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:43:03 +0000

i like how they bother putting all the anti-counterfeiting swirly things and watermarks on those bills.

By: V

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:40:28 +0000

Be thankful? How about be worried. We may see this right here thanks to Uncle Sam and his printing presses!

By: miss fidget

miss fidget — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:11:49 +0000

wow

By: iRcommenter

iRcommenter — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:13:24 +0000

@redphone - sorry, if you look closely at the bill in the picture you can see that it's only worth $100 billion until Dec 31, 2008. It's pretty bad when your economy goes bad before the milk in the fridge does.

By: jazzman

jazzman — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:27 +0000

one of my friends at school is a Zimbo and his parents just visited and brought us a couple hundred billion dollar bills

By: DOJ

DOJ — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:56:43 +0000

I bet you could sell those notes in the US as novelties

wasn't this on neatorama not too long ago?

By: Ramunas

Ramunas — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:33:16 +0000

I wonder how much the whole country would cost. Don't think that the price would be very high.

Pack me one, please.

By: Sid Morrison

Sid Morrison — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:58:25 +0000

I can almost hear an Austin Powers movie dubbed into "Zimbabwese" now:

DR. EVIL: I am demanding ransom of [dramatic pause] 100 Billion Billion dollars!

SCOTT: [Rolls eyes at such a trifling amount demanded by his father]

By: redphone

redphone — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:16:04 +0000

If I picked up a cool 100 billion now, I wonder what it'd buy me in 10-20 years from now in that country.

By: Bonwilsky

Bonwilsky — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:53:24 +0000

If you read the comments at the bottom of the series of pictures, you'll find out that the government has had to remove 16 zeros and will probably be removing more in the future.

By: Darragh

Darragh — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:40:52 +0000

Ummm, excuse me if I'm wrong but I think this is a tad stale. I heard about that note a while back but more recently I heard that it was officially changed, so that 100 billion zimbabwian (?) dollars became 1 zimbabwian (again, sp.?) dollar.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:32:03 +0000

I wonder if they paper they print the money on is worth more than the money?

By: glen

glen — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:13:48 +0000

I guess ye'all needed them White farmers afterall, eh?

Zimbabwe President labels White farmers 'enemies':
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/africa/04/18/zimbabwe.land.03/