"Bank notes issued just a few months ago are not enough to buy even a single sheet of toilet tissue... in any case there is no toilet tissue to be found in the stores of Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwean 50-billion-dollar note is worth just 33 U.S. cents, by the time you hear this possibly even less than that...

This week the Harare Herald advertised that the Lotto Bonanza prize being offered was 1.2 quadrillion Zimbabwean dollars. A quadrillion is what comes after a trillion. 1.2 quadrillion Zimbabwean dollars are worth about 4000 U.S. dollars."

-- NPR Weekend Edition