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Dear Alexa, My friends and I went to the movies last weekend, and at the end of the night I realized I paid more for my popcorn, soda and candy, than I did for my actual movie ticket! Why are movie concessions stands so expensive? Please Explain! Kate Well Kate,... [read more]
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notes

In a front page, July 2, 2008 article, the Wall Street Journal described how, Giesecke & Devrient, a Munich-based family-owned company that printed the currency for the Weimar Republic in the 1920s, has been airlifting tons of blank notes to Zimbabwe. Now that the firm is complying with the German government’s request to halt deliveries, Zimbabwe’s major source of its paper currency will be eliminated.
If you do not have the paper, what happens to your currency???