Economics 20 Jul 2008 07:15 pm

Anyone want to buy a $100 billion note?

Zimbabwe has been experiencing mind-boggling inflation. So much so that they've recently printed $100bn bills.

The sad thing is that these bills are worth more on eBay than they are as actual currency (click for larger):

eBay Zimbabwe currency

This harks back to the time when it was less expensive to burn money in post-WWI Germany than it was to use the money to buy wood, which is the origin of this famous picture:

Burning money during the depression

Mind-boggling.

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