Sunday, August 17, 2008

100,000,000,000 Dollars

Bet you havent seen this before, 100 billion dollars note!! Thanks to Zimbabwe's mind-boggling hyper inflation, a new 100 billion dollar bank note has recently been issued. Dont expect the single note to buy you any luxury. This note is worth enough to buy a loaf of bread if you can find one on Zimbabwe's depleted store shelves.

Notes in the millions of dollars are useful only as toilet paper and it's cheaper to light a fire with low denomination bills than with newspaper. A hundred billion dollars is worth US$5 at the official rate. So if you want to be a billionaire, just head to Zimbabwe.

1 comment:

Johnny Ong said...

pity those poor people.