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We're talking about wealth and, you know, much of how much has been generated, but going back to Zimbabwe,

because when I think Zimbabwe, everybody knows about the $1 trillion bill.

I actually want to try to get hold of one, because I have one in my bag if I had I known other books.

But it's just fascinating to kind of hear the story of how that all transpired and hyperinflation,

and how people, you know, I hear stories from family about how to carry bags of money to get just in bread or something like that.

That's right.

How was it? You, because you were there at that time.

Firstly, the biggest note we've ever gotten to is $100 trillion.

And that $100 trillion is very interesting because what happened is Zimbabwe had a problem.

The problem, the difficulty was a disagreement that they had with Britain regarding the land.

And so Britain was supposed to return the, or pay for the land, you know, pay for the land that they had given their own people

when they came in as colonialists and so on.

So the government says, look, instead of getting the people out of the land, pay us for the land, and that's it.

But unfortunately, they didn't end up paying.

Whatever the political side of it was, but as a result of all that, there were sanctions against Zimbabwe

because the government went out and started taking back this land to say, listen, you guys didn't pay up, you got to vacate.

And so on, I'm trying to word it simply.

And the economic crisis resulted in the dollar, the Zimbabwe dollar, which by the way was stronger than the pound in 1980.

It was stronger than the pound in 1980.

By the time the year 2000 came, it started crashing.

And free fall, free fall meaning it was just because of sanctions and because we found ourselves with no foreign currency reserves and so on.

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