{"id":236,"date":"2008-07-18T14:08:43","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T03:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=236"},"modified":"2008-11-10T14:31:18","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T03:31:18","slug":"zimbabwe-inflation-rate-now-at-22m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=236","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Inflation Rate Now at 2.2m%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in February, I <a href=\"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=151\">blogged<\/a> about Zimbabwe&#8217;s $10 million note and received a ton of hits when it got stumbled. At that time, Zimbabwe had an official annual inflation rate of over 150,000%. Now that Mugabe has blatantly stole the elections, inflation has again shot up so ridiculously high that it makes the previous rate look like just a milk run.<\/p>\n<p>According to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2008\/jul\/17\/zimbabwe\">report<\/a> in the Guardian, the official, and hence woefully under-reported, inflation rate is now at 2.2m% and the largest bank note is now denominated at $50 billion, with a value of around 18 British pence. The government can&#8217;t even print money fast enough, so that ordinary people are now limited to only $100 billion of withdrawals a day.<\/p>\n<p>Just another day in the ongoing trainwreck that is Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in February, I blogged about Zimbabwe&#8217;s $10 million note and received a ton of hits when it got stumbled. At that time, Zimbabwe had an official annual inflation rate of over 150,000%. Now that Mugabe has blatantly stole the elections, inflation has again shot up so ridiculously high that it makes the previous rate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=236\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zimbabwe Inflation Rate Now at 2.2m%<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[52,494,51],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-inflation","tag-news","tag-zimbabwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}