Mike just got this note in the mail today, and I thought people would like to see what $10,000,000,000,000 looks like -- in Zimbabwe dollars, that is. Last week, Zimbabwe lopped off 12 zeroes . (They have announced, but not officially issued, $50 and $100 trillion notes.) So the note you see here went down to $10...and is now worth about 30 cents U.S. That's after they lopped off 10 zeroes last summer. I absolutely cannot conceive of that level of hyper-inflation, where something... read more
