Articles in the “money” category

The Zero Game

Posted 4 years ago, at the end of July

World record inflation rates and bank notes.

100 Billion Dollar Note

Posted 4 years ago, mid-July

Billions, Trillions, Quadrillions. What comes after that?

2,200,000%

Posted 4 years ago, mid-July

“It can’t get worse than this.”

60 Billion and No More Paper

Posted 4 years ago, at the start of July

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

Define free fall

Posted 4 years ago, at the end of June

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 [...]