Of Tyrants and Trillions, Part II

by Theodore Dalrymple (August 2015)

Having framed my Tyrant collection, together with Colonel Gaddafi, I rummaged around among the banknotes that I had brought home from my travels to various parts of the world, and realised that I had yet more tyrants to frame. Mostly, though not entirely, they were African. I also had an incipient hyperinflation collection, though in some cases the two categories overlapped.  more>>>

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  1. Most illustrative!

    My hope and wish was that you would have embellished the narrative with the “goods at hand,” the actual colorful notes.

    A picture may be worth 100 trillion words!

    Ciao.

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