sexta-feira, 13 de fevereiro de 2009

Lugar aos cromos - II


Zimbabwe's central bank is releasing a new bank note that's worth 100,000,000,000,000 in local dollars, news organizations report.The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe announced via the state-run Herald newspaper that it's introducing a family of notes denominated in trillions."The $10 trillion note has the image of the RBZ Building and the Conical Tower at the Great Zimbabwe National Monuments," the paper says. "The $100 trillion note has the image of a buffalo and the Victoria Falls, the $50 trillion the Kariba Dam spilling and an elephant, while a mineworker drilling in an underground shaft and the GMB grain silos appear on the new $20 trillion note."The new 100 trillion bill is worth about $30.Zimbabwe has the world's highest rate of inflation. Over the summer, AFP says the government reported a 231 million percent inflation rate.
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1 comentário:

Lília Abreu disse...

Bufalos, cataratas, elefantes e zeros, muitos zeros... Mugabe e a partilha de poderes...
Com esta dolarização da economia, pena as notas não se poderem comer : refogadas, salteadas,marinadas...
Quanto às fontes, para esses lados, nem confiaria muito nelas.