Where inflation is 2,000,000%

Courtesy CNN Money  Sat, 08/16/2008 - 11:33am

If purchased on the newsstand in Zimbabwe, the issue of Fortune you're holding would have cost you 270,543,825,555 Zimbabwean dollars.

But don't worry about pulling your Weimar-era wheelbarrows out of storage. As of July you could pay for your magazine with three newly issued $100 billion bills.



 

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