In the sort of sound economic reasoning that we have all come to expect from Harare, the Zimbabwean government plane to chop a bunch of zeroes off of the country's currency, thus re-denominating, though not re-valuating the plummeting Zimbabwean dollar. Beyond making math a little easier for people carrying around bricks of the country's virtually worthless notes, I have no idea what ZANU-PF expects to accomplish with this little act of chicanery. Let us forget about how this will happen logistically, given that the cost of making most of Zimbabwe's notes is more expensive than the notes themselves are worth, and that for this to work the country will have to introduce all new currency. Cunning.
