Suppose Martyn Turner was spot on, as he often is, when he sketched this cartoon a few weeks ago:
Speaking of inflation, here's a bit of trivia:
Zimbabwe currently has an inflation rate of 150,000%, but this is moderate compared to historical figures. For example in Hungary at the end of the Second World War, inflation was 41,900,000,000,000,000% which meant that prices doubled every 15 hours...
(E-mail received from Bolger, D., 26 February 2008).
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