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Who Wants to Bury a Billionaire?

Jesse Walker | April 8, 2008, 10:00am

You can't sum up the entire sorry situation in Zimbabwe in just one sentence. But this one goes a long way:
Now the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has rewarded the people of Zimbabwe with a new $50 000 000.00 bank note to reduce the number of notes they have to carry around.
This picture might help, too:
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The country faces an inflation rate of approximately 200,000 percent. One of the few saving graces: an extensive black market, which allows Zimbabweans access to more stable foreign currencies.