Showing posts with label Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

One Trillion Dollars.... Hahaha

Inflation.  Scary thing isn't it?  They showed these around the office.  It's a reserve bank note of Zimbabwe.  When inflation gets out of hand the printing presses are sure working hard.  But just like a house of cards it usually all comes tumbling down.

So what would "one hundred trillion dollars" ( I feel like I'm in one of the Austin Powers movies as the evil villan) actually buy?  Probably not much.  Going back in the time tunnel to the German Weimar Republic I think a wheelbarrow of cash only got you a loaf of bread.  In fact I think the story goes when the person went to get the cash outside the bakery, someone had dumped out the cash and stole the wheelbarrow.