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What 10 Million Buys.(Periscope; BLACK MARKETS)(10 million Zimbabwe dollars)(Brief article)
Byline: Scott Johnson
Zimbabwe's new 10 million dollar bill is red, perhaps a warning that this money is melting down fast. Last week, 10 million Zimbabwe dollars could buy two rolls of toilet paper. By now, it probably won't get quite that much. Not surprisingly, the currency is not adorned with the face of president Robert Mugabe, but with a pastiche of fish.
The world's most bankrupt economy has an inflation rate of 100,000 percent and a vast black ...
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