“‘At first covertly, then in openness, and finally with the consent of the government,’ Mr. Noko writes, ‘foreign currencies – the rand, the euro, the pound, the U.S. dollar, the [Zambian]kwacha – replaced Zimbabwe’s dollar.’ Precisely as Mr. Hayek had imagined, Zimbabwe’s inflationary spiral ended. Within weeks, the country’s economy showed dramatic improvement. Businesses began to open. Banks began to function. Unemployment began to fall. GDP began to rise. Private credit began to increase. Foreign investment began to return. The human exodus ended. Thiers’ Law, the opposite principle of Gresham’s Law, does work: Good money, freely circulated, drives out bad.”
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