A Zimbabwean government daily newspaper shows the newly unveiled hundred trillion dollar note on January 16, 2009 as the country battles with inflation which is rapidly eroding the value of the local currency. Inflation was last reported at 231 million percent in July, but the Washington think-tank Cato Institute has estimated it now at 89.7 sextillion percent -- a figure expressed with 21 zeroes. AFP PHOTO/Desmond Kwande (Photo credit should read DESMOND KWANDE/AFP/Getty Images)
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