Don’t Knock Zimbabwe
February 2, 2009
Hey Lew, don’t be dissing Zimbabwe. I just became the owner of $200,000,000,000 worth of Zimbabwean currency. Where can I get that level of wealth in America? I am told the Zimbabwe government is planning to put out $100,000,000,000,000 bills in order to facilitate economic transactions. Look at how easily that government has been able to “grow” their economy!! As Li’l Abner might have expressed it: “It makes a feller get a gleam of pride within his eye, to see how our economy expands.”
Butler Shaffer was Professor Emeritus at Southwestern University School of Law. He is the author of In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition, 1918–1938, Calculated Chaos: Institutional Threats to Peace and Human Survival, and Boundaries of Order. His latest book is The Wizards of Ozymandias.
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