Libertad Cercenada

No es suficiente que los totalitaristas empobrezcan a la gente mediante los impuestos y las regulaciones. Es necesario llevarlos a la quiebra absoluta. Esto es lo que está ocurriendo en Zimbabwe, donde Estado ha impreso miles de millones de dólares zimbabwenses. Tan sólo dos pliegos de papel higiénico cuestan 417 dólares; el rollo entero está costando 145750. La inflación, causada por la expansión del dinero, ha llegado a 1000% y los precios se duplican rápidamente.

How bad is inflation in Zimbabwe? Well, consider this: at a supermarket near the center of this tatterdemalion capital, toilet paper costs $417. No, not per roll. Four hundred seventeen Zimbabwean dollars is the value of a single two-ply sheet. A roll costs $145,750 - in American currency, about 69 cents.

In February, the government admitted that it had printed at least $21 trillion in currency - and probably much more, critics say - to buy the American dollars with which the debt was paid.

By March, inflation had touched 914 percent a year, at which rate prices would rise more than tenfold in 12 months. Experts agree that quadruple-digit inflation is now a certainty.

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