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Zimbabwe's hyperinflation

Now that Zimbabwe is printing 100 trillion Zimbabwean dollar notes, the news of 900% inflation back in 2006 seems almost quaint.

Tom Palmer notes that the BBC seems to think that printing money “copes” with inflation rather than causing it.

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