Thursday, June 05, 2008

Want to be a Billionaire?

Move to sunny Zimbabwe!

Zimbabwe’s currency plunged to a new record low on Thursday, trading at an average 1 billion to the U.S. dollar on a recently introduced interbank market and triggering massive price increases.

Traders were quoting the Zimbabwean dollar

at between 995 million and 1.45 billion against the greenback in Thursday morning trade, up from an average 700 million at the beginning of the week. The currency has depreciated by about 84 percent since the central bank effectively floated it in early May after years of an official peg.

(1) Comments
Posted by Owen at 1206 hrs
Foreign Affairs
Tags: foreign

  1. Cool.  I’ll move there, make millions, become a Prince, allow my family to get wiped out in a coup d’tat, and then e-mail you with a request to share $30 million dollars with me.

    Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 05, 2008 at 1347 hrs


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