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If you're at all familiar with the hyperinflationary meltdown that Zimbabwe experienced in the first decade of the 21st century, you've probably heard tales of people buying cartons of eggs for billions and trillions of Zimbabwean dollars, or people hauling wheelbarrows of Zimbabwe banknotes to local stores just to buy one loaf of bread. How the heck can something like this happen? First of all, it might be helpful to know that this is nothing new; if you take even a cursory look at monetary history throughout the centuries, you'll see dozens of examples of paper currencies becoming worthless in various countries throughout the world. As investor Jim Dines once famously quipped, hyperinflation is a "disease of money", and it has affected dozens of different countries and cultures at different periods of time throughout history. It's hard to put into words the kind of economic devastation that happens as a result of hyperinflation, and unfortunately, Zimbabwe experienced this horror in spades when their currency collapsed.

When you examine the course of events that led to Zimbabwe's hyperinflationary meltdown, you will quickly see that there are a multitude of factors that contributed to the economic chaos. One of the most commonly cited catalysts for the hyperinflation was Zimbabwe's highly controversial land reform program that was initiated in 1980 in an attempt to redistribute the country's resources to those who previously had been underprivileged. While the intentions of the program might have been good, the confiscation of land from skilled multi-generational farmers (and subsequent redistribution of that land into the hands of unskilled subsistence farmers) proved to have a bevy of unintended consequences. As Zimbabwe was largely an agricultural economy, this crippled the country's economic productivity and precipitated a collapse of the credit markets in that country as well. After all, lenders were not willing to bear the risk of loaning funds for development into the hands of people who could not demonstrate a satisfactory level of productivity. After a while, this proud country that was once a net exporter of agricultural goods now became a net importer of those goods.

Another major factor was at play as well, as Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe's now-deposed dictator-in-chief who first rose to power in 1980) began funding Zimbabwe's military involvement in the Second Congo War. As many governments have done in times of war, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe begin printing money to monetize its ever-growing budget deficits. Now pile a heaping helping of corruption, misallocation of resources, rampant cronyism, and general fiscal mismanagement on top of all this, and you have all the ingredients necessary to release the hyperinflationary Kraken into the Zimbabwean economy. The money supply in Zimbabwe skyrocketed while economic productivity came to a grinding halt, prompting the Zimbabwean government to continue printing banknotes of higher denominations to keep up with the rapidly increasing rate of inflation. This largely futile money-printing effort reached the pinnacle of ridiculousness in January of 2009 when the Zimbabwe 100 Trillion Dollar note was introduced. As the denominations on Zimabwe's floundering banknotes continued to rise to astronomical levels, the economic and social situation in the country continued to worsen, ultimately resulting in extremely high unemployment rates (upwards of 80%), unpredictable prices, lower life expectancies, major food shortages, outbreaks of major diseases (e.g., cholera, malaria, etc.), and a large-scale population displacement as people attempted to flee from the horrific crisis.

A woman pays $45,000 in Zimbabwean dollars for a loaf of bread in 2006.
The sad thing about it is that this was just the beginning.
Image credit: Reuters

Here at BuyZimbabweDollars.com, we don't claim to be able to solve the world's economic issues, and while this was a tragic and horrific situation, perhaps the one silver lining we can find is that it produced some of the most famous and sought-after monetary collectibles on the planet. So why not own an important piece of monetary history by purchasing some of these Zimbabwe banknotes today?

Last Updated on 7/27/19