Brass Tacks: Artist Paints On Inflation-Hit Bank Notes
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🗓️ 10 January 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, today from Reuters. |
| 0:04.0 | Argentine artist paints on inflation hit banknotes. |
| 0:08.3 | Yikes. |
| 0:09.3 | I guess it's better than real paper, though. |
| 0:11.2 | You know what I mean? |
| 0:12.0 | It's got that texture. |
| 0:14.1 | Maybe. |
| 0:14.5 | I don't know. |
| 0:14.9 | I actually have never seen Argentine banknotes. |
| 0:18.1 | Have you? |
| 0:18.6 | Banknote, that's what a dollar bill is. |
| 0:20.2 | I mean, basically, I mean mean it's all it's it's |
| 0:22.1 | it's an i o you sure uh and this guy decided that uh and i got to be real he's uh he's quite |
| 0:28.5 | the painter uh i actually might find this dude and purchase something from him he does this |
| 0:33.2 | shit looks actually pretty cool um it makes me wonder i haven't seen this article you brought it in this |
| 0:38.7 | morning and i'm like i'm wondering if is he painting on it because it's already worthless yeah he can |
| 0:44.5 | get more money out of it so yeah so uh this is in salta argentina uh this is from a few days back |
| 0:51.0 | but regardless is kind of, it's still interesting. |
| 0:59.4 | Argentina's cash has lost so much value in recent years that local artist Sergio Gerellmero Diaz, I don't know, I have to apologize with that one. I can't pronounce that |
| 1:05.3 | stuff. I'm sorry. Fines painting on even the most valuable bank notes has become affordable. |
| 1:10.5 | Hmm. So with the annual inflation that likely neared 100% last year, the largest painting on even the most valuable bank notes has become affordable. |
| 1:16.2 | So with the annual inflation that likely neared 100% last year, the largest denomination of Argentine currency, the 1,000 peso bill is worth around $5.60 officially or just $3 on parallel |
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