http://www.joshbyers.com/hollywood-video-crisis-looms-large/ A Digital Playground of Fun and Frivolity Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:11:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-RC1 hourly 1 http://www.joshbyers.com/hollywood-video-crisis-looms-large/comment-page-1/#comment-2576 Nick Long Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:56:28 +0000 http://www.joshbyers.com/archives/280#comment-2576 The cost of bread exceeded that of grain in the early 90's and so Russian farmers were feeding their stock bread, resulting in a shortage. You can buy a loaf of bread in Moscow these days for $.35. I can't even get a loaf at the 'day old' store for twice that. Consider this, however...the inflation rate in Russia hit 2000% in 1992. At a standard price of $2.00, that loaf just hit the $4,000 mark. That Nintendo Wii just cost you $500,000 The cost of bread exceeded that of grain in the early 90’s and so Russian farmers were feeding their stock bread, resulting in a shortage. You can buy a loaf of bread in Moscow these days for $.35. I can’t even get a loaf at the ‘day old’ store for twice that. Consider this, however…the inflation rate in Russia hit 2000% in 1992. At a standard price of $2.00, that loaf just hit the $4,000 mark. That Nintendo Wii just cost you $500,000

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