Million Zimbabwe Dollar Homepage on the New York Times Freakonomics blog
The Million Zimbabwe Dollar Homepage was recently mentioned in the nytimes Freakonomics blog. It was mentioned in another nytimes blog a couple months ago.
But Dombrow’s friend doesn’t have to be rich to pay one and a quarter billion Zimbabwe dollars (ZWD) for two beers, a mineral water, and one dinner.
Thanks to inflation, it comes out to just $2.70 in U.S. dollars (according to OANDA.com).
Zimbabwe’s severe inflation sparked a parody of the Million Dollar Homepage — The Million Zimbabwean Dollar Homepage (worth US $0.002159).
