$25 billion can buy you a loaf of bread

[temi]

Zimbabwe's central bank will introduce a $50 billion note -- enough to buy just two loaves of bread -- as a way of fighting cash shortages amid spiraling inflation.
he country's acting finance minister, Patrick Chinamasa, made the announcement in a government gazette released Saturday. While Chinamasa did not give the date on which the $50 billion and new $20 billion notes would come into circulation, an official at the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe said the notes would be distributed to all banks by the end of Monday.


source/full story: cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/01/10/zimbawe. currency/index.html?eref=rss_latest

[SenseiDesign]

hm I would go for a deflationpolicy instead of just printing higher notes ...... I guess it would be easier to just cut of some 0 of the billion to make the life and the calculating easier

[TeamPlayer]

I wonder if they had these problems in the days of Ian Smith? Rhodesia had it`s own set of problems, but Zimbabwe seems to have many more.

[temi]

Zimbabwe problem is artificially created by one despot :(

I wonder if they had these problems in the days of Ian Smith? Rhodesia had it`s own set of problems, but Zimbabwe seems to have many more.

[TeamPlayer]

It`s amazing how he`s survived all these years without someone taking a potshot at him.