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Tag Archives: hyperinflation
Zimbabwe: the Hollow State
Three weeks ago Tama Muru from the BBC asked me if I thought Zimbabwe would explode. At the time I said, “No.” Was I wrong? The situation three weeks ago was this: The Zimbabwe dollar was worth less than the paper it’s printed on Zimbabwe is short of everything and produces virtually no food on […]
Zimbabwe: Recovering the irrecoverable
Anti-capitalist demonstrators around the world should be celebrating. Robert Mugabe’s government has taken those against free-markets at their word. Over 1 300 business owners have been arrested across Zimbabwe. Their crime? Raising prices. For the past decade Robert Mugabe has accepted every tenet of the anti-globalist anti-free-market lobby. He nationalised large commercial farms and gave […]
Getting home in Zimbabwe: The impossibility of public transport
By the time you finish reading this article the cost of a taxi-ride home from work in Harare will have doubled. Zimbabwe, which continues to subsidise fuel prices, has had fuel shortages for the past seven years. A shortage of foreign currency has dramatically reduced the state’s ability to pay for fuel imports. The official […]
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