According to Professor Jeffrey Sachs, as reported in the New York Times, Zimbabwe's hyperinflation is now among the five worst of all time:
Like countless Zimbabweans, Mrs. Moyo has calculated the price of goods by the number of days she had to spend in line at the bank to withdraw cash to buy them: a day for a bar of soap; another for a bag of salt; and four for a sack of cornmeal.
And in the contest between Zanu-PF and the MDC over ministries, Mugabe has 'refused to give up control of the crucial Finance and Home Ministries'. Not only no money - less and less food:
Following the worst wheat harvest since the independence war, bread has run out and sugar supplies are set to follow. USAid, the American government humanitarian agency, is warning that the country could run out of... maize, the staple food, by next month.