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Venturing Into the Surreal: Zimbabwe says dollar reserve role done, pushes for gold-backed currency
If the environment in the movie "Bread for Gold" is still present in the country, there really isn't even a currency, as the movie showed that the currency isn't even accepted and much of the population spends their days panning for tiny bits of gold (bills were used to sift through the little pieces of gold.) Given what has gone on in the country though, it's a rather bold - and as you said, very possibly political - statement that they made. Many people will likely write it off and nothing may become of it, but a surreal point in time has been reached when Zimbabwe feels the ability to be able to talk in that manner about the dollar and suggest a "reboot" with a gold-backed currency (and I had no idea they were sitting on THAT much gold, if that's true.)
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