Didn’t anybody think of revaluing the currency? Something like “1 brand-new sparkling Zimbabwe dollar for 1 billion of those old nasty ones”. And everybody just move the decimal point 9 places (or more, or less, if they’re on the British system).
And didn’t anybody read about the Reichsmark, and the wheelbarrows full of banknotes they rushed to the stores right after payday?
Alexis: “Carbon credits” could be called the currency of Humpty Dumpty,” Not Humpty Dumpty, but rather Al Gore and his partner:
“Former Vice President Al Gore has built a Green money-making machine capable of eventually generating billions of dollars for investors, including himself, but he set it up so that the average Joe can’t afford to play on Gore’s terms.”
You’re right – they’re indulgences. And we all know what happened the last time people started playing with indulgences.
