Comprehensive reporting on the economic crisis in Zimbabwe.

This well-sourced story gives many accounts of peoples' experiences during a time of hyperinflation. The stories ring true to me; I experienced something similar in northern Syria in the mid-1960s.

Mugabe is cannibalizing his own country and its people so that he can remain in power. You could say Mugabe was an accident waiting to happen. Well, now that he has manifested his malfeasance; I’m waiting for the accident that removes him from power. My guess is that the people of Zimbabwe are too hungry to revolt and that is just what Mugabe wants.

The facts are there. This is one story where the NYTs does not editorialize on how bad the government is. Inquiring minds want to know why the NYTs gives Mugabe and his government a pass on the worst self inflicted economic collapse since Cuba.

Another NY Times disappointment, missing the forest for the trees. With the enormous history of price controls and market manipulation to draw on, the Times is somehow unable to find an authority or an historical parallel to say the obvious - that everything happening now was 100% predictable based on Mugabe's policies, and that what happens next is equally predictable. The article leaves the impression that the Times has no idea why things turned out as they have economically in Zimbabwe, nor what might unfold next. Sad.