Comments on: A Hamburger? That'll be 15 Million Zimbabwe Dollars, Please!

By: Sid Morrison

Sid Morrison — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:13:37 +0000

Hey, Zimbabwe is just learning that food gets to be in short supply (= expensive) when you take all the land away from the efficient large farmers and disperse it to a myriad of inexperienced people running tiny farms. The food gets expensive first and everything else follows. Mugabe needs an economics advisor who took a class in teh subject.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:57:51 +0000

This reminds me of this story about Yugoslavia.

http://www.rogershermansociety.org/yugoslavia.htm

By: marieissah

marieissah — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:24:56 +0000

hahaha ) Nice! You'll be buying burgers for millions in cash. Cool!

By: VonSkippy

VonSkippy — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:46:24 +0000

Hey, give them a break. Running a completely corrupt government takes a lot of zeros these days (just look at America's finances if you disagree).

By: MrPumpernickel

MrPumpernickel — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:57:09 +0000

*shrug* I have an old bill from Germany, 500,000,000 Deutschmark (500 million). Ten million is peanuts.

By: Lemons

Lemons — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:22:20 +0000

Reminds me of the old Turkish lira, actually. Back in 2001 they made the shift to the new lira (YTL), which dropped the six zeroes that had resulted from major inflation-- i.e. 1,000,000 TL became 1 YTL.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:19:50 +0000

Good catch brian t! I didn't see that at first.

You know, all Zimbabweans are pretty much millionaires...

By: brian t

brian t — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:40:22 +0000

First time I've seen money with a sell-by date on it...

By: biltmore

biltmore — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:01:08 +0000

Wow. That's insane.