So many zeros...
I'm not sure whether this is so funny it's sad, or so sad it's funny...
The head of operations here just came and showed me a picture a friend of his sent him from Zimbabwe. It's a cellphone cam photo of a personal cheque for, ready for this:
One quadrillion, seventy-two trillion, four hundred and eighteen billion and three million dollars (Zimbabwean).
Seriously.
It's a legit cheque.
They needed two lines on the cheque to write out the whole figure.
Now THAT'S inflation.
The head of operations here just came and showed me a picture a friend of his sent him from Zimbabwe. It's a cellphone cam photo of a personal cheque for, ready for this:
One quadrillion, seventy-two trillion, four hundred and eighteen billion and three million dollars (Zimbabwean).
Seriously.
It's a legit cheque.
They needed two lines on the cheque to write out the whole figure.
Now THAT'S inflation.