Thursday, January 15, 2009

Robert Mugabe: your 15 minutes of fame ended 30 years ago

It is a tremendous embarrassment to South Africa, which is supposed to be the leader of Southern Africa, to the African Union, to the UN and indeed to the entire civilized world that Robert Mugabe remains in power in Zimbabwe.

Indeed, it is amazing to me that he remains alive let alone in charge.

Here is a moving, and amazing, post from Chris Blattman on hyper-inflation in practice. We know how to prevent hyper-inflation. There is NO excuse for this.