Friday, March 23, 2007

The Zimbabwe endgame - From the Sydney Morning Herald: "The point of desperation has arrived": "If inflation is a rough indicator of human misery, life for the remaining Zimbabweans is growing 1750 per cent less pleasant every year - hyperinflation not witnessed anywhere since Germany between the wars. Since 2000, gross domestic product has halved to $US4 billion ($5 billion), the biggest modern collapse of a peacetime economy."

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