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    The Worst Episode of Hyperinflation in History: Yugoslavia 1993-94. Between October 1, 1993 and January 24, 1995 prices increased by 5 quadrillion percent. That’s a 5 with 15 zeroes after it.

    Interesting shit TBH.

    http://www.rogershermansociety.com/yugoslavia.htm

    The telephone bills for the government operated phone system were collected by the postmen. People postponed paying these bills as much as possible and inflation reduced their real value to next to nothing. One postman found that after trying to collect on 780 phone bills he got nothing so the next day he stayed home and paid all of the phone bills himself for the equivalent of a few American pennies.
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    They got fucking raped. That would suck.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Deadly
    The Worst Episode of Hyperinflation in History: Yugoslavia 1993-94. Between October 1, 1993 and January 24, 1995 prices increased by 5 quadrillion percent. That’s a 5 with 15 zeroes after it.
    5,000,000,000,000,000

    Pretty crazy whenst u actually look at the figure. I guess it was a good time 2 invest in Yugoslavian industry.

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    The entire country probably could have been purchases for around a million dollars.
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    1 million? What are you stupid?
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    Considering that we have the strongest currency here in the US and the fact that Yugoslavia has never been worth even close to 5 quadrillion in the firstplace, I believe that is an overestimation.

    (could probably buy it with Saman's life)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spyder
    Considering that we have the strongest currency here in the US and the fact that Yugoslavia has never been worth even close to 5 quadrillion in the firstplace, I believe that is an overestimation.

    (could probably buy it with Saman's life)

    euro is worth more....

    1 EUR = 1.3132 USD
    1 USD = 0.7615 EUR

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