{"id":271,"date":"2009-01-18T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T07:00:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-08-14T16:23:03","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T15:23:03","slug":"100-trillion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=271","title":{"rendered":"100 Trillion $"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Zimbabwe&#8217;s central bank began circulating Z$10, Z$20 and Z$50 billion notes &#8211; but they are no longer sufficient.  They are now going to print 100 Trillion Zim$ bank notes, equal to about \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd20 today but devalueing fast.  Inflation is currently said to be 231,000,000% but many believe it to be greater than this!  In a couple of weeks time I expect to read that 100 Billion Trillion Zim$ notes are to introduced.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/50_billion.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Zim$ bank notes have a picture of balancing rocks on them; balancing rocks are a feature of the Zimbabwean landscape.  Here are a couple of pictures of balancing rocks I took in Zimbabwe.  The first picture bears a striking similarity to the rocks on the bank note.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/PICT0294.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/PICT0276.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Zimbabwe&#8217;s central bank began circulating Z$10, Z$20 and Z$50 billion notes &#8211; but they are no longer sufficient. They are now going to print 100 Trillion Zim$ bank notes, equal to about \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd20 today but devalueing fast. Inflation is currently said to be 231,000,000% but many believe it to be greater than this! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}