Zimbabwe waves farewell to its 100-trillion-dollar bills

MarketWatch ^ | June 12, 2015 | BARBARA KOLLMEYER

[EternalVigilance]

it peaked at 500 billion percent in November 2008 — pretty much collapsed its currency.

No! Really?!

lol...

[familyop]

That’s what our trading partners should do.

:-)

[lee martell]

And still, Mugabe remains in power. The man behind the bloody curtains of White Farmer Murders.

[IAMNO1]

Maybe if they just raised their minimum wage?

[__rvx86]

I recall that a lot of people had trouble using electronic payment systems - the staggering amounts indicated routinely overflowed 32-bit unsigned and 64-bit signed integer types...

To quantify the broad money supply of remaining extant ZWL may require a supercomputer - it could easily overflow a 64-bit unsigned integer type...(>18,446,744,073,709,551,615)

[tet68]

Raise the minimum wage to...4 million an hour?
Democrats to call for parity.

Nanzi Pelozi says it not fair...to undocumented
american workers.

[Fungi]

Why is it these ruthless dictators live so long? Witness Mugabe, Castro, and their ilk. Why?

[fella]

Is that a cowpie?

[MinorityRepublican]

Memories: Mugabe is seen sitting down, alone and upset, in his palace garden (top), before cracking into a huge smile as a pair of white gloves cover his eyes (bottom)

[berdie]

Because from, what I hear...

Some people just have to nasty away before they die.

[867V309]

Is that a cowpie?

Quite rightly.

100,000,000,000,000 cowpies = 1 cowbell.

[LeoWindhorse]

Zimbabwe should have never ceased being Rhodesia . Ian Smith should have never given in . They were winning militarily . When you are winning militarily ; DON’T QUIT

[faithhopecharity]

Zimbabwe can now ship all of its their wonderful currency to USA just in time for America to use it.

[Monterrosa-24]

Silly things weighed too heavily on Rhodesia and South Africa when the Whites yielded too much. They wanted their international sports teams to be able to compete. They wanted more status when traveling abroad. There were all sorts of economic problems to work around due to sanctions. But now they have worse economic problems, horrible crime, and completely broken countries.

[LeoWindhorse]

Not to mention the nearly complete displacement and seizure of all white owned and operated farms and other businesses . Rhodesia was once the bread basket of all of Africa with these sturdy and diligent people at helm and pursuing agriculture . Now the natives have , like the Palestinians , let almost everything go completely to hell .
I imagine Mugabe and his policies and practices are some sort of model for Obama in his redistribution of wealth agendas .

There is a special place in hell for these people , and may they soon get to know of it .

[dead]

I have ten 100 trillion dollar Zimbabwe bills. Bought them on ebay for 5 bucks. I know they’re not even worth that, but I like them.

[FredZarguna]

This upsets me so much. I first conceived of the molebuck in 2008, and was really hoping to see it make its debut. Now it's just one more broken Zimbabwe Dream...

[aquila48]

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[GeronL]

500 billion percent inflation

the only one working were the ones running the printing presses probably