Showing posts with label inflation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inflation. Show all posts

12 May 2008

Got a spare billion?

VICTORIA FALLS HOTEL, Zimbabwe. One person, one meal, and a bill for one billion, two hundred and forty three million, two hundred and fifty five thousand dollars ... excluding the tip of course. When Rose and I stayed at this same hotel on our honeymoon, nearly 30 years ago, the total food bill for two, for six days, was $65.00. Quite a lot has changed!

Photo souce: Andy Gibb (original source not known)

21 January 2008

Zimbabwe inflation reaches 150,000 %


Read the article from SWNEWS - so what would you do with a ten-million dollar note in your pocket? Actually, it would probably not even pay for lunch at a take-away.