https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2008/07/07/money-money-money/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 08:17:37 -0400<![CDATA[Who says socialism doesn&#8217;t work? The country that has produced the most trillionaires in history isn&#8217;t America, but Robert Mugabe&#8217;s Zimbabwe. The Wall Street Journal describes what it is like to dine out on the town. &#8220;Buying anything is a &#8216;bizarre experience,&#8217; said Lucy Chimtengwende from Bulawayo, who spent $12 U.S. on lunch recently, with the bill in local currency being an astonishing 1.1 trillion Zimbabwe dollars.&#8221; Inflation has been given a whole new meaning in Zimbabwe, whose currency has depreciated ten billionfold in twelve years, a rate that threatens to exceed the bounds of the database field sizes that the bank&#8217;s software developers thoughtlessly assumed would be enough. Consider the travails of a man who simply wanted to buy groceries.]]>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:40:49 -0400<![CDATA[Richard Fernandez]]>https://pjmedia.com/richard-fernandez/2008/07/07/money-money-money-n185730