This Makes Me Appreciate OUR Economy

Yeah, yeah, the dollar is dropping and houses are cheaper and the world is coming to an end through a recession. However, it's peanuts compared to Zimbabwe's problems.

Apparently, you have to fork over this huge wad of cash just to buy four tomatoes.

And that's before the recent problems started. Now, here's a guy holding half a billion dollars. Unfortunately, it won't buy him much.

This all comes from a very fascinating photo essay over at this blog that gives the whole picture, you should check it out.

I keep finding out that economics is more complicated than I think. (via Neatorama.)