{"id":304,"date":"2009-03-10T08:08:52","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T14:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/?p=304"},"modified":"2009-03-10T08:08:52","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T14:08:52","slug":"trillionaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/10\/trillionaire\/","title":{"rendered":"Trillionaire!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day, I purchased Ten Trillion Dollars<\/strong> on ebay for a mere $9 and change. Here’s a picture of it:<\/p>\n

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So, it’s “Zimbabwe dollars,” but that still has to be a lot of money, right?<\/p>\n

This morning, my friend Curt asked me how much it was worth. I googled “Zimbabwe exchange rate,” punched in the amount at the first site I came to, and got the answer:<\/p>\n

$81,004,768,003.09<\/span><\/p>\n

81 Million<\/del> Billion dollars! Not bad for a $9 investment.\u00a0 “Maybe I shouldn’t just leave this bill lying around in my cubical,” I thought.<\/p>\n

Then I went to another google result, and I got a different answer:<\/p>\n

“Notice: The Zimbabwe government redenominated the ZWD again on February 2, 2009 at a rate of 1,000,000,000,000 old ZWD to 1 new ZWD.<\/strong>” So, 1 trillion old dollars is 1 new dollar. So I have 10 new dollars, which is worth: 8 cents<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Oh, how my heart sunk when I learned that I had not 81 Million<\/del> Billion dollars, but 8 cents. (Probably 4 cents by the time I finish writing this post — the inflation there is ridiculous!) Well, I’ll hang on to it. When the Zimbabwean economy rebounds, that’s going to be my retirement!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day, I purchased Ten Trillion Dollars on ebay for a mere $9 and change. Here’s a picture of it: So, it’s “Zimbabwe dollars,” but that still has to be a lot of money, right? This morning, my friend Curt asked me how much it was worth. I googled “Zimbabwe exchange rate,” punched in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}