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I'll save you eurotrash the trouble... "half-a-billion dollars? That's what, 6 euros?"
posted by Dave Faris at 10:06 AM on May 15, 2008
posted by Dave Faris at 10:06 AM on May 15, 2008
5 euros - you didn't type fast enough
posted by pyramid termite at 10:08 AM on May 15, 2008
posted by pyramid termite at 10:08 AM on May 15, 2008
the 'dismal science' indeed
I was reading Sam Adam's memoir last night, and his first little bit covers his time on the S. African desk of the CIA, where he analyzed the progression of the Congo Crisis of 1964.
The intermixture of a) immense physical wealth -- abundant natural resources -- with b) truly stone-age tribal mentalities, c) the usual multinational industrial concerns and d) Cold War jockeying between the US, European, Soviet, and Chinese clandestine services was simply utterly fascinating.
posted by tachikaze at 10:08 AM on May 15, 2008
I was reading Sam Adam's memoir last night, and his first little bit covers his time on the S. African desk of the CIA, where he analyzed the progression of the Congo Crisis of 1964.
The intermixture of a) immense physical wealth -- abundant natural resources -- with b) truly stone-age tribal mentalities, c) the usual multinational industrial concerns and d) Cold War jockeying between the US, European, Soviet, and Chinese clandestine services was simply utterly fascinating.
posted by tachikaze at 10:08 AM on May 15, 2008
My stepsister, who went to art school in Harare, once applied for a job with the Zimbabwe government to design their bank notes.
She didn't get the job (not that she's too bothered about that now, in Australia), but it seems that the person who did has been kept pretty busy the last few years.
posted by Flashman at 10:12 AM on May 15, 2008
She didn't get the job (not that she's too bothered about that now, in Australia), but it seems that the person who did has been kept pretty busy the last few years.
posted by Flashman at 10:12 AM on May 15, 2008
Two of 'em buys you Carl Sagan.
No. You need eight. Two is one billion. Four is two billions, or billions. Two sets of four would be the minimum needed for a Sagan.
Did I just write that? Kill me.
posted by eriko at 10:13 AM on May 15, 2008 [1 favorite]
No. You need eight. Two is one billion. Four is two billions, or billions. Two sets of four would be the minimum needed for a Sagan.
Did I just write that? Kill me.
posted by eriko at 10:13 AM on May 15, 2008 [1 favorite]
This is the fourth set of high denomination notes to be issued this year, the first being in January when a 10 million dollar note was put into circulation.
$10 million to $500 million in four months? That's what I like to call kindling inflation.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 10:14 AM on May 15, 2008
$10 million to $500 million in four months? That's what I like to call kindling inflation.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 10:14 AM on May 15, 2008
Something that's been done three times in the past six months is news when they do it a fourth? C'mon.
posted by Plutor at 10:15 AM on May 15, 2008
posted by Plutor at 10:15 AM on May 15, 2008
I am interest Zimbabwe Stweissand ticket. Enclosed find half-billion note pleez.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 10:16 AM on May 15, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 10:16 AM on May 15, 2008 [1 favorite]
truly stone-age tribal mentalities
Um, that's kind of a racist thing to say.
posted by nasreddin at 10:19 AM on May 15, 2008
Um, that's kind of a racist thing to say.
posted by nasreddin at 10:19 AM on May 15, 2008
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