Economics 20 Jul 2008 07:15 pm
Anyone want to buy a $100 billion note?
Zimbabwe has been experiencing mind-boggling inflation. So much so that they've recently printed $100bn bills.
The sad thing is that these bills are worth more on eBay than they are as actual currency (click for larger):
This harks back to the time when it was less expensive to burn money in post-WWI Germany than it was to use the money to buy wood, which is the origin of this famous picture:
Mind-boggling.
