What can you even say at this point?

by on November 28, 2007 at 7:40 am in Current Affairs | Permalink

Zimbabwe’s chief statistician says he cannot work out the rate of inflation because of the lack of goods in shops.

Here is the sad story.  Thanks to Shanley and also Wolfram for the pointer.

12 comments

Chris Meisenzahl November 28, 2007 at 7:55 am

Wow, this story just keeps getting worse. ;-(

Did you see this:
http://amateureconblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/venezuelans-struggle-to-find-food.html

Alex November 28, 2007 at 10:57 am

Time is up for Mugabe. Sooner or later, this situation will become untenable and he will have to step down.
The issue now is probably to find him an exit strategy (e.g:exile)which he could accept and where he doesn’t lose face. But how long will it take the international community to step this up? Unfortunately, past experience does not bode well for the people there.

Christina November 28, 2007 at 12:41 pm

So where’s the hue and cry from the ‘humanitarians’ of the Western World? Heck I’d be happy if Thabo Mbeki of South Africa would grow a pair and tell Mugabe to straighten up.

Anonymous November 28, 2007 at 12:59 pm

The economy will not force Mugabe to step down, unfortunately,
Julius Nyere ran Tanzania’s ecomony into the ground before letting i
it collapse completely, and still he remained in power. All that
will happen is that the formal economy will cease to exist at all
and a barter economy will take it’s place. This is already
happening and the barter economy (or parallel market as they prefert
to call it) is already the dominating economy. The Zimbabwe Dollar
will cease to exist as the country’s currency and the Rand and US
Dollar will replace it. Mugabe will stay in charge of a ruined
country because it’s people do not have the gumption to remove
him.

Yancey Ward November 28, 2007 at 2:23 pm

Mark,

The Zimbawean dollar cannot be saved. The solution will be that people stop using it, as they already increasingly do (this is why the shelves are empty).

Raul November 28, 2007 at 3:42 pm

Now, if only, we used a true gold standard! Sigh! It all seems uncannily exactly what VonMises wrote!

Shannon November 28, 2007 at 6:11 pm

If the government already froze prices where they were, wouldn’t that make measuring inflation pointless anyway (the prices can’t change by law)?

Nabr November 28, 2007 at 10:57 pm

Good story. But where’s the hard economic analysis? Why did it happen? Did they put too much money in circulation? Or was it a productivity loss? Both?

mouse November 29, 2007 at 12:46 am

Nabr, do you honestly not know?
They, the Mugabe regime, stole the productive farms from the white people, first. They threatened them and assualted them and then confiscated their property. Then they confiscated more property. Then they confiscated more private property. They looted the bank accounts of the people trying to leave the country, even after they agreed to leave their land behind “to the people”. Then they inflicted price controls. More and more price controls. More and more and more while constantly shrinking what was left of any private sector businesses that were allowed to exist. Then they had shortages. Then they seized goods to make up for the shortages. Of course, then they printed more money because they had to pay for all of the people to “buy” the goods they had seized.
The terror hasn’t stopped, either.

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