Thursday, January 17, 2008

Nutty: Zimbabwe bank issues $10million bill - but it won't even buy you a hamburger


Zimbabwe - Forget the glitzy restaurants of New York and London: only in Zimbabwe would a hamburger actually cost millions of dollars.
The central bank of the southern African country has announced that tomorrow it will issue a 10million Zimbabwe dollars note. The move increases the denomination of the nation's highest bank note more than tenfold.
Even so, a hamburger in an ordinary cafe in Zimbabwe costs 15 million Zimbabwe dollars. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace