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Poor Billionaires
In a nation with rampant hyperinflation, bread is a bargain at just $10 million. Inside Zimbabwe's collapsing economy.

By Scott Johnson | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Mar 25, 2008 | Updated: 4:49 p.m. ET Mar 25, 2008
http://www.newsweek.com/id/129010/page/1

Zimbabwe's new 10 million dollar bill is red. One side has the official stamps of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and some meaningless serial numbers. The other is a pastiche of a fish jumping out of a lake and a giant dam in the background. The bill, released for the first time last month, is actually not a proper currency note at all but rather a "bearer check." Zimbabwe stopped printing real money long ago, when its inflation rate was still at a manageable level. Today these bearer checks are the only currency remaining. Last week in Zimbabwe 10 million dollars could buy exactly two rolls of toilet paper. By now it probably won't get quite that much.

[Junior]

I knew a teacher from there.
He lost his family inheritance (40 years of savings) in the space of a few years because the Zimbabwe govt wouldn't release the funds, because he was white.
Then he came to Korea and became an esl teacher.Last I heard he went to live in Colombia.