http://www.uglychart.com/2008/02/12/the-million-zimbabwean-dollar-homepage/ Beauty is in the eye of the shareholder Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:29:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.uglychart.com/2008/02/12/the-million-zimbabwean-dollar-homepage/#comment-36017 happyweasel Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:22:22 +0000 http://www.uglychart.com/2008/02/12/the-million-zimbabwean-dollar-homepage/#comment-36017 Wow, on BBC today they claim a black market exchange rate of Zim$7.5mil to US$1 & an official(?) inflation rate of 66,212.3% (kinda makes you wonder about that .3%, sticklers for details, I guess) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7244769.stm Dude, you're over charging big time. Would you accept a dollar for all the pixels? Maybe I could scramble a naked picture of myself and link it to the '30 Rock' website. Dreams. Wow, on BBC today they claim a black market exchange rate of Zim$7.5mil to US$1
& an official(?) inflation rate of 66,212.3% (kinda makes you wonder about that .3%, sticklers for details, I guess)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7244769.stm
Dude, you’re over charging big time. Would you accept a dollar for all the pixels? Maybe I could scramble a naked picture of myself and link it to the ‘30 Rock’ website. Dreams.

]]> http://www.uglychart.com/2008/02/12/the-million-zimbabwean-dollar-homepage/#comment-36016 Humble Money » Blog Archive » links for 2008-02-14 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:25:10 +0000 http://www.uglychart.com/2008/02/12/the-million-zimbabwean-dollar-homepage/#comment-36016 [...] uglychart.com: a blog about stocks » Blog Archive » The Million Zimbabwean Dollar Homepage I’m waiting one week, then I can buy all the pixels for $0.000003 [...] [...] uglychart.com: a blog about stocks » Blog Archive » The Million Zimbabwean Dollar Homepage I’m waiting one week, then I can buy all the pixels for $0.000003 [...]

]]> http://www.uglychart.com/2008/02/12/the-million-zimbabwean-dollar-homepage/#comment-36008 happyweasel Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:41:09 +0000 http://www.uglychart.com/2008/02/12/the-million-zimbabwean-dollar-homepage/#comment-36008 1. Are all transactions on the page in US$ ? If so, how often do you plan on recalculating Zim$1mil as it is rapidly falling? Will you reduce the cost of each pixel? Reduce the number of pixels? Or accept the inevitability of becoming more than a Zim$millionaire? You chose the official exchange rate over any sort of black market calculation? The official is very fake and, perhaps (?), even frozen. 2. In 1997, when I was there, the exchange rate was roughly Zim$11/ US$1. Sure makes the US$ look like a solid currency, ha ha ha. Still, I suspect your exchange rate is very generous to the Zim$. As I understand it, no one would trade currency along the official line. In 1997, A little van/ transit ride into Harare cost ~ US$.30; last week the BBC talked to someone who didn't have enough immediate cash to pay the Zim$4mil fare to her neighborhood... she had Zim$2.5mil budgeted 'cause that's how much it was a couple weeks earlier. Inflation is so high there that it really can't be reasonably calculated. 3. It's not Mugabe's fault. He's the greatest leader ever. Perhaps he and GWjr will find an island where they can retire and poop back & forth forever in weird dude bliss. 1. Are all transactions on the page in US$ ? If so, how often do you plan on recalculating Zim$1mil as it is rapidly falling? Will you reduce the cost of each pixel? Reduce the number of pixels? Or accept the inevitability of becoming more than a Zim$millionaire? You chose the official exchange rate over any sort of black market calculation? The official is very fake and, perhaps (?), even frozen.
2. In 1997, when I was there, the exchange rate was roughly Zim$11/ US$1. Sure makes the US$ look like a solid currency, ha ha ha. Still, I suspect your exchange rate is very generous to the Zim$. As I understand it, no one would trade currency along the official line. In 1997, A little van/ transit ride into Harare cost ~ US$.30; last week the BBC talked to someone who didn’t have enough immediate cash to pay the Zim$4mil fare to her neighborhood… she had Zim$2.5mil budgeted ’cause that’s how much it was a couple weeks earlier. Inflation is so high there that it really can’t be reasonably calculated.
3. It’s not Mugabe’s fault. He’s the greatest leader ever. Perhaps he and GWjr will find an island where they can retire and poop back & forth forever in weird dude bliss.

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