The Zero Game
World record inflation rates and bank notes.
Billions, Trillions, Quadrillions. What comes after that?
Zimbabwe’s inflation is now said to be 4 million percent, while a German company says it has stopped providing bank note paper to Zimbabwe
The BBC’s John Simpson is reporting from Harare. As a result, the economy here is now in free-fall. When I arrived in Harare on Monday, the Zimbabwean dollar had fallen to 9 billion to the US dollar. On Tuesday it was 12 billion, and on Wednesday 15 billion. Inflation is said to be 165,000%. One [...]