Are you FREAKING kidding me?! 355,000% Inflation? How is this possible?

At some point, don't economists give up? 165,000% to 355,000% percent in a single month?! How can the government of Zimbabwe print notes fast enough to keep up w/ inflation? $1,000,000,000 Bills? Are you kidding me? That's NINE zeros!

What is a single Zim Dollar worth to a U.S. Dollar? Let alone to a Rand, a Euro or Swiss Franc!

This is what cartoons call "ludicrous speed"! I cannot even comprehend the fact that prices for goods when you put them in your basket double by the time you get to the cashier!

What government, ANYWHERE, gets away with this? This is a complete economic implosion! Did pre-Nazi Bismark Germany even have inflation this high? How is it that people can continue to apologize or defend the current ZANU-PF administration of Zimbabwe? This is not the fault of any so-called "sanctions" which are only in place against Mugabe's ZANU-PF cronies! This appears to be the intentional mismanagement of ZANU-PF to destroy Zimbabwe's economic viability and make it THAT much harder for any subsequent government to mend the disaster wrought by the proir government in order to pave it's way to a return to power.

If you support ZANU-PF, I DARE you to try and defend the economic catastrophe being inflicted on your fellow countrymen by this heinous economic policy!

Don't be surprised if guys like Phiri and Kubatana6 reply to your message claiming its the fault of the whites and Britain.

Tell me Kuba, is 355,000% inflation bad enough yet for you to admit Zimbabwe is in big trouble? Or are you waiting for this to hit a million percent?

How do you defend the indefensible? How does ZANU-PF/Mugabe/The Herald "claim" that the MDC is attacking it's own supporters with any credibility whatsoever? The facts cannot be changed, 355,000% inflation (expected to be over 1,000,000% by year's end), 80% unemployment, 25% of the population living in self-imposed economic exile in a country that was (under Ian's Smith's racist Rhodesia) the "breadbasket of Africa". How do you turn such an inheritance into such a humanitarian and economic fiasco? ZANU-PF/Mugabe has managed to do it........

ZANU-PF/Mugabe has taken a page out of the Soviet playbook vintage 1950 via their mouthpiece, the Herald.... If you say something is true often enough in the Herald, perhaps your own supporters will believe it.

Don't worry, Phiri and Kuba are probably off on holiday in their comfortable expatriate lives and couldn't respond immediately. I expect they'll be here eventually to denounce white people, the U.K. and it's plots to return to power in Zimbabwe and the U.S. soon enough.

For the America-bashers: it is curious though, the people of Iraq have had elections and they haven't had the same problems reporting results as they've had in Zimbabwe have they? Yes, there's violence in Iraq, but if I recall correctly, they posted most of their election results within 2-3 days. I think they're going to have another soon, I wonder if they'll conduct their next round of elections and announce their results before ZANU-PF/Mugabe allows the results of the "run-off" to be announced?

355000%? If only it were JUST 355000%.