(September 11, 2014 at 3:21 pm)StealthySkeptic Wrote:(September 11, 2014 at 3:11 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: $1 US is worth ~ $360 Zimbabwe. (was just kidding)
Actually, before the Zimbabwe dollar was abandoned in 2009 (Zimbabwe now allows foreign currencies including the South African rand, Botswana pula, pound sterling, Indian Rupee, euro, Yuan and the US dollar), its final exchange was 300 trillion to the US dollar. I wish I was kidding, but hyperinflation was that horrible.
I remember my Zimbabwean friend using a 1 trillion dollar note as a bookmark. I heard stories about people taking wheelbarrows full of money to buy some bread, and the inflation being so bad that the price had gone over what they had in the wheelbarrow between leaving home and getting to the shop.
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. - J.R.R Tolkien
