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Alas: See also: “McCain’s modest proposal.” (salmon)
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What’s a few zeroes between friends?

Zimbabwe’s acting finance minister Patrick Chinamasa, commenting on what used to be called “dollarization,” the declaration that foreign currencies are legal tender: “[I]t requires a paradigm shift in terms of acknowledging the reality that we cannot eat what we do not have.” Independent Online (.za) offers some context: The budget’s estimates of state expenditure were [...]
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