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Re: AIMster post# 29114

Friday, 12/12/2008 3:12:35 PM

Friday, December 12, 2008 3:12:35 PM

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From a story on cholera in Zimbabwe. We spoke some time ago about their currency devaluation, now the inflation rate is off the charts!

Inflation officially hit 231 million percent in July, but John Robertson, an independent economist in Zimbabwe, estimates that it has now surged to an astounding eight quintillion percent -- that is an eight followed by 18 zeros.

Whole story here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/12/world/africa/12cholera.html?em=&pagewanted=all


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