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(The Times of India) Obvious Zimbabwe retires it own dollar after acknowledging that it's worthless, adopts only slightly more solvent currencies including Botswana pula, Polish zloty and American dollar   (economictimes.indiatimes.com) divider line 72
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Last One Left [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 07:44:16 AM  
Solvent currency? Currencies have liabilities now?

 
Archie Goodwin [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 07:58:26 AM  
I like how they are accepting the British Pound, considering Mugabe has been continually blaming the Brits for Zimbabwe being in the mess it is.

 
gopher321 [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 08:43:59 AM  
*ahem* (new window)

 
Makh [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 09:17:07 AM  
They could go with skeeball tickets at this point. Then they would have God on their side.

 
Kyosuke [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 09:20:09 AM  
Last One Left: Solvent currency? Currencies have liabilities now?

Isn't that the defining quality?

This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt, and is receivable in payment of all loans made to the United States.

 
Kierkegaard's Pseudonym 2009-04-12 09:37:54 AM  
gopher321: *ahem* (new window)

I'm tempted to buy that thing, if only to have "TEN TRILLION DOLLARS" in Rock Band font.

 
GaryPDX [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 09:40:11 AM  
This is what happens when you print money out of thin air. Amazing how that works.

 
Frank N Stein 2009-04-12 09:44:39 AM  
GaryPDX: This is what happens when you print money out of thin air. Amazing how that works.

It'll work next time. I Promise.

 
GaryPDX [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 09:45:53 AM  
Frank N Stein: GaryPDX: This is what happens when you print money out of thin air. Amazing how that works.

It'll work next time. I Promise.


umm..where have I heard that before? Oh yea..people use that excuse when selling mutant socialism.

 
Kyosuke [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 09:49:10 AM  
GaryPDX: umm..where have I heard that before? Oh yea..people use that excuse when selling mutant socialism.

Wow, that didn't take long.

 
eddyatwork [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 09:51:55 AM  
I'd love to get my hands on a trillion dollar bill just so I could say I was a trillionaire.

 
Phil Moskowitz 2009-04-12 09:53:13 AM  
GaryPDX: Frank N Stein: GaryPDX: This is what happens when you print money out of thin air. Amazing how that works.

It'll work next time. I Promise.

umm..where have I heard that before? Oh yea..people use that excuse when selling mutant socialism.


jesus farking christ. you're one more of those away from ignore list.

 
drsteel 2009-04-12 09:54:00 AM  
GaryPDX: Frank N Stein: GaryPDX: This is what happens when you print money out of thin air. Amazing how that works.

It'll work next time. I Promise.

umm..where have I heard that before? Oh yea..people use that excuse when selling mutant socialism.


Mutant Socialists? We must fight them with...
ZOMBIE REPUBLICANS!!!
data.tumblr.com

 
Party Boy [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 09:54:23 AM  
Mugabe sucks.

 
5_second_rule 2009-04-12 09:54:35 AM  
Now GaryPDX will tell us the stock market is going to lose 600 points.

/go back to planning the next Oklahoma City dumbass

 
Lawnchair 2009-04-12 10:06:59 AM  
GaryPDX: This is what happens when you print money out of thin air. Amazing how that works.

So, you're saying Richard Nixon, 15-Aug-1971, then?

 
schief2 [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 10:08:28 AM  
eddyatwork: I'd love to get my hands on a trillion dollar bill just so I could say I was a trillionaire.

For a while on Ebay there was a guy in Zimbabwe selling these:

img21.imageshack.us

There's something very C. Montgomery Burns-esque about having ten quadrillion dollars on my desk.

/100 x 100,000,000,000,000
//currency geek

 
PC LOAD LETTER [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 10:10:05 AM  
GaryPDX: This is what happens when you print money out of thin air. Amazing how that works.

Do you have any evidence that we are printing money out of thin air? 1) I have actually looked for a factual article on the Treasury printing tons of money and I need you to give me a reliable source to believe that 2) assuming that they are, why are there no concerns about inflation? No one is seriously suggesting that there is rampant inflation about to take hold. In fact, zero indications exist.

I know deep down inside you want this country to fail, to turn into Zimbabwe, to be destroyed economically so you can have your capitalism/socialism (whatever those terms mean to you) showdown, but the rest of us will continue to remain hinged and live in reality.

 
Podna 2009-04-12 10:18:16 AM  
schief2: There's something very C. Montgomery Burns-esque about having ten quadrillion dollars on my desk.

Well, I bet that would be the perfect gift for your family members.
kids around 6-12 would think a stack of money would be awesome

 
NYZooMan 2009-04-12 10:19:35 AM  
Kyosuke: GaryPDX: umm..where have I heard that before? Oh yea..people use that excuse when selling mutant socialism.

Wow, that didn't take long.


No, unfortunately it was the first thing he did when he got into office.

 
LewDux 2009-04-12 10:21:46 AM  
: mutant socialism.

Socialism that evolved?

 
Last One Left [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 10:26:06 AM  
Kyosuke: Isn't that the defining quality?

Well, I understand how a nation or a state can have liabilities, but not how a currency itself can.

 
Wulamoc 2009-04-12 10:40:15 AM  
They could easily revalue their currency by 'exchanging' with Americans on the streets of big cities.

"I am sorry to bother you. The store will not accept my homeland's money, could I sell you this thousand dollar bill for just ten of yours?"

 
crab66 2009-04-12 10:40:29 AM  
Beaver95: GaryPDX: umm..where have I heard that before? Oh yea..people use that excuse when selling mutant socialism.

And yet they simply wont listen. Mostly because they support it and want to keep it quiet.


I like the cut of your jib..

 
GaryPDX [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 10:50:16 AM  
5_second_rule: Now GaryPDX will tell us the stock market is going to lose 600 points.

/go back to planning the next Oklahoma City dumbass


Hey, the market used to be above 10000. There's the change. We won't see that again any time soon.

 
TheRaven7 2009-04-12 10:55:23 AM  
The market is currently around what it was at during the Lewinsky scandal. We need to have her keep giving presidents head to keep the market expansion steady.

 
Kyosuke [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 10:56:00 AM  
GaryPDX: We won't see that again any time soon.

Good.

 
GaryPDX [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 10:58:30 AM  
Kyosuke: GaryPDX: We won't see that again any time soon.

Good.


Sooo..this Utopia. It's just poverty for everyone, right? I mean what's left after the "Rich People" are destroyed, cleaned out or run off?

 
LiquidTester 2009-04-12 10:59:29 AM  
GaryPDX: ...

Wow, you get off on being an idiot. Is there to flag any thread he's in so I can avoid the whole thing?

 
eddyatwork [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 11:00:59 AM  
GaryPDX: I mean what's left after the "Rich People" are destroyed, cleaned out or run off?

The other 98% of us. Here's a clue. You are one of the 98% no matter how much it hurts to admit it.

 
PC LOAD LETTER [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 11:01:30 AM  
GaryPDX: 5_second_rule: Now GaryPDX will tell us the stock market is going to lose 600 points.

/go back to planning the next Oklahoma City dumbass

Hey, the market used to be above 10000. There's the change. We won't see that again any time soon.



The market is higher now than when Obama took office.

 
Kyosuke [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 11:03:43 AM  
GaryPDX: Sooo..this Utopia.

I never said it was utopia. Conversely, quite a few bad things happened to, and were perpetrated by, this country while the numbers were artificially high. But you've made it quite apparent that these things were ok by you, because it's the USofA!!!

\left my patriotic eagle graphic in my other shorts.

 
GaryPDX [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 11:18:24 AM  
PC LOAD LETTER: The market is higher now than when Obama took office.

Obama himself has said we very desperately need "Private Investors". He's even selling mortgages on TV and few are buying. The banks and credit are frozen. Millions of shareholders of GM have just lost everything with a bankruptcy. Hundreds of billions are flowing to secret places in Europe through AIG.

Nobody with any money left is going to invest when there's a threat of government takeover. And if you take their money, even as a loan that you pay back in exchange, they start telling you what to do.

All of this is right in front of everyone's nose..so..how long you gonna keep selling that hopey shiat?

 
PC LOAD LETTER [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 11:21:21 AM  
GaryPDX: PC LOAD LETTER: The market is higher now than when Obama took office.

WAAAAA IT'S NOT FAIR!!!! HE'S GOT TO FAIL!!! WAAAAHHHHHH!!!


It's OK bubbala, everything's going to be alright.

 
Kyosuke [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 11:21:45 AM  
GaryPDX: PC LOAD LETTER: The market is higher now than when Obama took office.

Obama himself has said we very desperately need "Private Investors". He's even selling mortgages on TV and few are buying. The banks and credit are frozen. Millions of shareholders of GM have just lost everything with a bankruptcy. Hundreds of billions are flowing to secret places in Europe through AIG.

Nobody with any money left is going to invest when there's a threat of government takeover. And if you take their money, even as a loan that you pay back in exchange, they start telling you what to do.

All of this is right in front of everyone's nose..so..how long you gonna keep selling that hopey shiat?


You're posting that from amidst the stockpiles in your underground bunker, aren't you.

 
GaryPDX [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 11:22:02 AM  
PC LOAD LETTER: GaryPDX: PC LOAD LETTER: The market is higher now than when Obama took office.

WAAAAA IT'S NOT FAIR!!!! HE'S GOT TO FAIL!!! WAAAAHHHHHH!!!

It's OK bubbala, everything's going to be alright.


Oh..we're into fake quoting too. How old are you?

 
GaryPDX [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 11:23:13 AM  
Kyosuke: You're posting that from amidst the stockpiles in your underground bunker, aren't you.

It's all true. But keep on believing..or just go back to sleep.

 
mesohorny 2009-04-12 11:27:41 AM  
We will never be sound until we back the dollar with gold or something that is stable.

 
GaryPDX [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 11:35:57 AM  
eddyatwork: GaryPDX: I mean what's left after the "Rich People" are destroyed, cleaned out or run off?

The other 98% of us. Here's a clue. You are one of the 98% no matter how much it hurts to admit it.


Yep..at a nice Federally regulated poverty level. I'm sorry but this is America, not Venezuela.

 
Dwight_Yeast 2009-04-12 11:37:03 AM  
What this really means is that the German company which supplies them with their banknote paper has cut off the supply until they pay their bill.

/seriously contemplating blocking Gary after his idiotic performance in this thread. He becomes more of an asshat every day.

 
Unright 2009-04-12 11:40:35 AM  
GaryPDX: PC LOAD LETTER: GaryPDX: PC LOAD LETTER: The market is higher now than when Obama took office.

WAAAAA IT'S NOT FAIR!!!! HE'S GOT TO FAIL!!! WAAAAHHHHHH!!!

It's OK bubbala, everything's going to be alright.

Oh..we're into fake quoting too. How old are you?


Looked legit to me.

 
The Tony Danzas 2009-04-12 11:41:51 AM  
Dwight_Yeast: /seriously contemplating blocking Gary after his idiotic performance in this thread. He becomes more of an asshat every day.

But if you block him, you'll miss the glory of his continuously developing meltdown. Can you think of anywhere else where you'd get this type of quality entertainment for free?

 
LewDux 2009-04-12 11:42:35 AM  
GaryPDX: How old are you?

 
GaryPDX [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 11:42:53 AM  
Dwight_Yeast: What this really means is that the German company which supplies them with their banknote paper has cut off the supply until they pay their bill.

/seriously contemplating blocking Gary after his idiotic performance in this thread. He becomes more of an asshat every day.


go fer it..be sure to point out the FarQ rule I violated too.

 
GaryPDX [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 11:44:11 AM  
Dwight_Yeast: What this really means is that the German company which supplies them with their banknote paper has cut off the supply until they pay their bill.

/seriously contemplating blocking Gary after his idiotic performance in this thread. He becomes more of an asshat every day.


oh nevermind..you meant "ignore"..you could always do that too.

 
eddyatwork [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 11:45:57 AM  
GaryPDX: Yep..at a nice Federally regulated poverty level.

Sure Gary, I'm sure you are destitute and panhandling at the local homeless shelter.

 
Kyosuke [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 11:52:59 AM  
GaryPDX: Yep..at a nice Federally regulated poverty level.

Maybe you should get off your ass and get a job, like any Real American.tm

Those of us who work for a living have control over our own financial lives.

 
lantawa [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 12:15:50 PM  
Mugabi.....Mugabi......Mugabi.....:
i466.photobucket.com

 
Mentat [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 12:17:37 PM  
GaryPDX: umm..where have I heard that before? Oh yea..people use that excuse when selling mutant socialism.

img2.imageshack.us

 
lantawa [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 12:24:04 PM  
Excuse me....Mugabe....BTW....He sucks for shiat.

 
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