Here is a story found from New York Times. I believe a lot of folks know that Zimbabwee had hyperinflation for quite some time.
Paper money there is basically worthless. So how would you procure healthcare services? By Trading Peanuts.
The hospital’s cavernous chapel is now filled with what looks like a giant sand dune of unshelled nuts. The hospital makes them into peanut butter that is mixed into patients’ breakfast porridge, spread on teatime snacks and melted into vegetables at dinnertime.
“We literally are providing medical services for peanuts!” exclaimed Kathy McCarty, a nurse from California who has run this rural hospital, 35 miles from the nearest tarred road, since 1981.
The hospital, along with countless Zimbabweans, turned to barter in earnest in 2008 when inflation peaked at what theInternational Monetary Fund estimates was an astonishing 500 billion percent, wiping out life savings, making even trillion-dollar ...
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