Jul 19th, 2008You know inflation is skyrocketing in your country when you have to introduce the $100 Billion banknote. The poor residents of Zimbabwe (despite most of the country being billionaires, they are indeed dirt poor) such astronomical inflation that they literally bring wheelbarrows full of cash to market to purchase basic groceries. In fact, the new $100 billion note only gets you some fruit. Rather than address the root causes of its inflation, the government of Zimbabwe responds by issuing more currency, and at higher and higher denominations. I’m assuming that their government is readying the trillion dollar note, and eventually the Googol dollar note.
But hey, the new bill at least gets Earth off the hook easily with Dr. Evil, no?
