12 December 2008

Understatement of the Year?

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Published on December 12th, 2008 @ 11:43:20 am, using 81 words, 73 views

Categories: General

“This is a landlocked country. And its formal and informal economies would suffer. Within a week, it would bring the economy on its knees,” a senior US official said in Washington on condition of anonymity.

If the world’s highest inflation rate, last estimated in July at 231 million percent but now believed to be much higher, is not an economy lying flat on its face what is?

http://www.africasia.com/services/news/newsitem.php?area=africa&item=081212102548.odhpq1od.php

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