Zillion-Dollar Bill: Difference between revisions

* During the hyperinflation in Germany during the Weimar Republic, this was the norm for currency, especially around 1922-25. Currency denomination in the billions was not uncommon at the time. There is one story, possibly apocryphal, of a man who wheeled trillions of marks in a wheelbarrow to deposit; as he stopped in, the wheelbarrow was stolen, but the stacks of by-then-worthless cash were left on the street. Almost any collectors' stamp store will have scads of 20-''billion''-mark postage stamps from the time, most of them uncancelled (as they were made obsolete by the mounting inflation shortly after they were issued and most people never bothered using them).

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_diamond Diamonds can now be manufactured] using a technology that's essentially a superpowered pressure cooker. The diamond cartels are ''terrified'' that these might be seen as equivalent in value to natural diamonds, to the point that they now package the natural diamonds with written histories and even [http://www.forevermarkdiamond.com etch trademarks onto them].

* During the US debt-ceiling crises of 2011 and 2013 and the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, the idea was floated of having the Treasury mint a [[wikipedia:Trillion-dollar coin|trillion-dollar ''coin'']] to pay US obligations in the absence of action from Congress.

 

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