Almost worthless pieces of paper, many bearing addresses like the Cayman Islands, Switzerland and South Africa.

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At bottom is raw data, like stock prices, and thanks to Google and others it is almost worthless.

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When the bubble economy eventually popped, the banks were left with vast quantities of bad loans and almost worthless collateral.

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On long flights, unless you can plug the unit into a 110 Volt charger, it is almost worthless as a work tool.

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The government also forced banks to pay investors in Daewoo's debt up to 95% of its face value even though it was almost worthless.

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Indeed, one can always pay the troops by printing more almost worthless money, as the U.S. did in the American Revolution and Robert Mugabe did in Zimbabwe.

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So the currency actually, the money received by ordinary Zimbabweans is almost worthless, whilst the foreign currency, retained by the Zimbabwean regime, is funding their thuggery and their violence.

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The market currently considers the division almost worthless.

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It makes the crops local farmers grow almost worthless, which makes them stop growing food and drives them to move to places where foreigners pass out free food, which lays waste to those areas which must produce food after that alphabet soup of aid agencies have moved on to the next crisis.

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