Zimbabwe: Shorthand for screwed

[sleetersoulfire]

Zimbabwe to print first $100 trillion note. The BBC's takeJust wondering how totally baked your economy needs to get for you to need to print a $100 trillion note (equivalent to $30 US, according to the BBC, $300 US according to CNN

Comments

[malvino]

"equivalent to $30 US, according to the BBC, $300 US according to CNN"

Articles written a couple of hours apart?

[sleetersoulfire]

Now you come to mention it, the articles were written two hours apart, with the BBCs being two hours later than CNNs.

Maybe I just have a warped sense of humour, but that really does amuse me. The thought that, before the notes were even issued they'd dropped so much value. It doesn't need to be true to be amusing to me...

[vashti]

That's hyperinflation for you. -_- Spend it when you get it, it won't be worth tuppence by the end of the day.