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Video: How the world vindicated Gideon Gono

Video: How the world vindicated Gideon Gono



Gideon Gono is the Governor of the Bank of Zimbabwe and officially the worst central banker in the world. This week he removed 12 noughts from the Zimbabwean dollar, just 4 months after knocking 10 noughts from the worthless medium of exchange. He is battling inflation at 5 sextillion percent per annum. But now he says other central banks are following his policies and he feels vindicated. Bernard Hickey examines whether Gideon Gono is a visionary or just a plonker that is being copied.

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