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Meanwhile, Belarus Has FX Problems Too...

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/15/2015 19:15 -0400

This is what US$2 looks like in Belarusian Rubles...

h/t @EvgenyFeldman

Imagine how great their stock market is doing!!??

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Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:17 | 5667334 SemperFord

I'll pay $2 for that...

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:19 | 5667347 kaiserhoff

Heads or Tails?

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:25 | 5667365 knukles

Dude. Is she a midget or normal? Acid or straight?
Discerning minds want to know

See Janet, that's what printing the shit till the cows come home does.
The $2, not her.

Hey Kaiser. Dig the linoleum wall paper. Like grandma used to have . Wonder if it comes with grandma smell, too? The lino, not the $2 Belarus babe.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:25 | 5667382 kaiserhoff

The decor is a little retro,

but I'm thinkin road trip.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:29 | 5667396 Pladizow

"I'll be a 10 minute brother for a two dollar ho!" - Tu Pac

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:57 | 5667547 OpTwoMistic

will not take her long to learn "half" as in "I want half".

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 20:02 | 5667570 cnmcdee

Bitcoin

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 20:05 | 5667582 wallstreetapost...

Gotta love currancy exchange... Makes their hookers dirt cheap!

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 20:19 | 5667665 Bananamerican

i'm experiencing a little "personal inflation" from this post...

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 20:25 | 5667678 nope-1004

She's smiling because she's "rich and swimming in so much money". Giddy from excitement, just like the average American will be when a gram of gold is equivalent to $2,000 USD.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 20:37 | 5667748 Stackers

but it's backed by the full faith and credit of an entire nation ........

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 21:19 | 5667978 Richard Chesler

Venezuelans will gladly pay $2 for that much toilet paper.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 21:41 | 5668103 Four chan

a hundred bucks could heat your home for a year.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 09:04 | 5669545 TerminalDebt

soon our hookers will be $2 a day too

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 22:41 | 5668383 Buck Johnson

She got that smile I'm rich, I'm rich. Not realizing that the American that paid for her time for 2 nights (not one night but 2 nights) did it with 2 dollars. Hell he may decide to do a whole orgy for 2 days straight with 4 women for 10 dollars US. It was like this when Berlin Wall fell and East Germany was one with Germany. The Hookers over there where lucky to get a dollar.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 20:06 | 5667583 wallstreetapost...

Winning.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 23:59 | 5668696 Uncle Sugar

And we sit here day in and day out motherfucking Mr Yellen for creating such blessed sights. Shame on us.

Some day we won't have to travel to Belarus to see such worthless stacks of fiat.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 20:07 | 5667589 El Vaquero

Greece, Switzerland, and now Belarus in one day. WTF!? I feel like I should be running down the street nude, wildly waving my arms while laughing maniacally.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 20:52 | 5667831 tarabel

You think they'd notice in New Mexico?

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 00:04 | 5668721 StychoKiller

"Sudden Debt's" got ya covered! :>D

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 20:44 | 5667793 noben

She takes Bite-coins.

Aka Gold coins.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 20:05 | 5667575 willwork4food

whatever. I'm going with Kaiser.

"Honey? I have a business meeting in Europe to attend this month."

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 20:18 | 5667654 Thirtyseven

But dear...you don't run a business or even work for one. You're just a carpenter.......

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 22:10 | 5668238 Rakshas

....... yes that's right.... but there are a lot of things to nail over there right now..... see ya when i see ya..

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 01:23 | 5668939 A Nanny Moose

Is that before or after you wake up missing a couple organs?

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:31 | 5667408 lordylord

More money more back problems. George Costanza wallet thickness coming to a country near you.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:36 | 5667437 whotookmyalias

Time to stop carrying cash and pay for everything electronically.

/sarc

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:41 | 5667465 lordylord

"Time to stop carrying cash and pay for everything electronically."

Paying for things is so 20th century. In the 21st century, government will just give you what you need.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:45 | 5667480 Tom Serfo

How are we supposed to tip strippers?

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 20:37 | 5667758 TheReplacement

You start by picking them up...

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:47 | 5667497 Sudden Debt

I wonder how a bar looks over there...

I’LL HAVE 4 IMPORT BEERS PLEASE! And I’m paying cash... here’s a little pile as a tip baby...

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:32 | 5667419 knukles

We could import stuff like this to "de islan, mon"
Whatchu think we could charge for a passport, complete with citizenship and a nice title, like for Prince, "Fairy Queen" or 'sumptin'?

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:46 | 5667487 kaiserhoff

I could be Baron von Sea Shells.

Been called worse.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:59 | 5667549 knukles

Oh Lordie. Now you've got me thinkin' of Gracie Slick wailing it out on Baron von Tollbooth and the Chrome Nun

Check this out: Flowers in the Night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXRrprAo8Uc#t=41

"Louis watch the prisons, send the goons around
Is that Paris burning, is the Bastille falling down?
And where are all the mercenaries - paid for by the king?
Have they joined the mob you say, doesn't money mean anything?
Old men get some soldiers, keep them close at hand,
The seeds that were sown yesterday now flower in the land
And guard yourself most carefully military might.
For plants that cannot bloom by day must flower in the night."

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 20:11 | 5667610 bilbert

ZOWIE, Knucks!! +1000

That was my anthem during the Nixon years - thanks for the reboot!

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 20:02 | 5667565 SumTing Wong

And you've got me thinking about that terrible Little Mermaid joke.

Why does the Little Mermaid wear seashells?

Because she grew out of the B shells!

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 01:51 | 5668990 glenlloyd

no doubt...

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:26 | 5667388 ShrNfr

They used to do linoleum because they thought it could help prevent tb. Stuff is a pain in the ass to remove in an old house.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 01:51 | 5668992 glenlloyd

complete pain in the ass to remove....been there, done that..

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:28 | 5667392 Bay of Pigs

Moar importantly, why did she shave her beard off?

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:34 | 5667436 knukles

She saw you comin'. my brother!
He/she/it can smell trouble a few thousand miles away.
Reading The Hedge anyhow it's fully empathetic of the depths of perversion and depravity lurking amongst these hallowed halls.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 20:46 | 5667781 Hulk

I think what that LBHFM is really saying with those eyes is "Knukles, for two bucks in russian rubles, I love you long time" !!!

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:30 | 5667404 Manthong

Bummer..

I was thinking airplane ticket until I opened the post.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 21:25 | 5668009 Demologos

Next time she wallpapers, cheaper to just put some paste on the rubles and stick 'em on. The day is fast approaching when I can do that with FRNs!

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 21:25 | 5668017 Blano

For 2 bucks knuks, does it matter?

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:35 | 5667439 e_goldstein

Heads or Tails?

Both

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 20:22 | 5667679 Cynicles

Heads or Tails?

Sure.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:19 | 5667349 Pool Shark

This is what it looks like in Zimbabwe:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Zimbabwe_$100_trillion_2009_Obverse.jpg

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:30 | 5667405 ShrNfr

You can buy those for about $10 on eBay.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:35 | 5667433 Pool Shark

I got mine back when they were just $5 at Provident Metals.

Whooo! Hooo!!!

Who would have thought I could double my money by investing in Zimbabwean currency???!!!

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:48 | 5667492 waterwitch

They may need to start using exponential notation so the numbers can fit on the note.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:27 | 5667391 SickDollar

shit I'll double it

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 20:24 | 5667680 monkeyboy

Where the fuck is Belarus?

And do they all look like that???

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 03:54 | 5668295 Rakshas

Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Romania, Baku they are all over the place and a little $$ goes a long way but then the same can be said of most countries of this modern world Indonesia, Malaysia Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia you can find oodles of drop dead gorgeous chicks that really will love you long time....... treat you like a king and defend you like a tiger if you take care of them....... they don't seem to suffer the gold allergy that most western women seem afflicted by........ sorry western chicks but it's true......

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 22:01 | 5668191 Luckhasit

No you got mixed up, it's; "I'll buy that for a dollar!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85cL1HisrNc

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:17 | 5667335 Frank N. Beans

damn!

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:19 | 5667345 Stoploss

BOING!!!!

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:32 | 5667411 Uncle Remus

Sproing

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:44 | 5667483 Sudden Debt

DING DING!

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 21:06 | 5667893 wee-weed up

You horny ZH'ers are a riot!

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 21:28 | 5668039 SubjectivObject

Wee Whee Up!

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:17 | 5667340 nicoacademia

umm which?

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:19 | 5667343 kaiserhoff

A month's worth of "Stripper Singles."

AwwwRiiiiight!

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:38 | 5667450 Uncle Remus

Never a good sign when they start doing fan dances with banknotes.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:20 | 5667352 Skateboarder

I must be an algo, for my bid is certainly greater than that ask. :-)

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:20 | 5667354 Debugas

actually $2 is less than 30000 BYR and there are banknotes of nominal 100000 BYR in circulation

http://ii.mypivots.com/banknotes/byr-100000-belarusian-rubles-1.jpg

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:20 | 5667358 Sokhmate

I'd be perpetually depleted there.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:29 | 5667397 Uncle Remus

You're talking about the banknotes, right?

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:22 | 5667359 Frank N. Beans

so if you wants to buy yoself a coke from da machine, you gotta puts all dem bills in der one by one jeez

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:23 | 5667363 dumbStruck

Maybe the Swiss could consider buying some BYR ?

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:26 | 5667390 disabledvet

Throw it in the fire baby....

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:28 | 5667398 Volkodav

Economist World Debt Comparison

http://www.economist.com/content/global_debt_clock/

Compare very small Belarus debt...

better worry about your country

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:31 | 5667415 Soul Glow

No wonder Russia cut off their gas, they couldn't pay for it.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:44 | 5667472 InvalidID

They could pay for it, but it would cost more to count it than it's worth...

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:47 | 5667498 waterwitch

The energy content in the paper fiat is more than in the gas purchased.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:54 | 5667523 disabledvet

And stop comparing fiat to toilet paper!

Toilet paper is FAR superior!

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 21:09 | 5667906 wee-weed up

Especially on the hemorrhoids!

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 20:38 | 5667762 Volkodav

not Belarus

it is Ukraine Kiev occupiers is the problem

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:35 | 5667417 cherry picker

I never could figure out the disparity in the labor or products from one country to another.

I've seen medical doctors and lawyers in the US with fine homes and mercedes. I have known surgeons and lawyers in Mexico, whose training and skills are equal without a fraction of income or material possessions. Same goes for the trades.

There is something wrong with this system where $20 from an indebted nation with an oversize military and terrorist intelligence agencies can buy a night on the town in a country which someone decides the currency is not equal.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:33 | 5667432 DaddyO

Don't worry, the IMF is trying to fix your inequity...

DaddyO

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:33 | 5667425 logicalman

Fiat at true value (almost)

Likely worth more burned for heat than anything else!

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:34 | 5667428 Uncle Remus

Somebody call for a tug?

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:36 | 5667448 Karaio

With that pile of paper would make a fire.

Put my link (in Portuguese "rod" is the part that lies between the bearing and the piston) in Russian.

What a beautiful girl!

Does not deserve so much inflation!

hehe.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:49 | 5667505 waterwitch

I'd inflate her!

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:55 | 5667536 Karaio

I need to explain.

In Portuguese-Br is the Country "Bielorússia", "Bielo" has phonetic similarity to "rod" an engine part.

Russia everyone knows what it is.

Cursed GoogleTradutor ...

hehe.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:44 | 5667471 robertocarlos

The cupboards are too small. The gas stove with front controls is good though.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:55 | 5667533 disabledvet

Come in Tokyo!

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:45 | 5667486 Keltner Channel Surf

Look closely -- I don't think it's money. Instead, it's a new genetically engineered vegetable hybrid, crossing a portobello mushroom with a head of broccoli.

Their 401(k) balances, plowed into local currency, might be a little tragic, but imagine the antioxidant levels they enjoy.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 20:06 | 5667593 SmittyinLA

Pure genius, think of all the money they can save on printing, now they can just debase the currency with spores, water mist and bullshit

Cut out the ink & paper guy

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 20:31 | 5667638 Keltner Channel Surf

The only downside is that Martha Stewart will have trouble deciding whether to steam it to al dente, then top with lemon zest, parmesan and fine olive oil, or make a veggie burger with strips of roasted red peppers and grilled eggplant on an onion roll. Decisons, decisons.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 06:08 | 5668618 cents gradeschool

You missin some payments, Hoss ;) I'll forgive you this time though, since you just handed me my new favorite song, AND since I know my SugarPapi works all night n day to pay tha billz! Muah!

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:52 | 5667514 surf0766