It’s time to try my hand at currency exchange with the tourist touts of Zimbabwe. I manage to get one billion to one. I buy the $100,000,000,000 Zimbabwe note for one US dollar. But a billion doesn’t go as far as it used to in Zimbabwe. If I had been prepared to do a little volume, say $5 US, I could have got the 100 trillion dollar note with several other trillion/billion dollar notes thrown in as spare change.
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