December 2009
20 posts
The enormity of Zimbabwe's inflation
The enormity of Zimbabwe’s inflation There are at least 2 crazy passages in this article about the amount of inflation in Zimbabwe over the past 30 years. Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe, the former Rhodesia, was a quadrillion times worse than it was in Weimar Germany. In grade school, quadrillion was always an exaggeration but not here: The cumulative devaluation of the Zimbabwe dollar was such...