Zimbabwe inflation rises to 500%

As Mugabe's money printing comes home to roost on inflation 

Villagers in the poorest villages pray nightly before little figurines of Ian Smith, praying for his return, whilst cursing white liberals for creating this nightmare  

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-04/zimbabwe-reaches-tipping-point-as-inflation-blacked-out

It's the new currency Supes. They hit a million percent inflation, and then switched to the US dollar just so that the economy could limp along. Now they have switched back to the new Zimbabwean dollar, and it's 500% inflation in *that* (actually I think 500% is the official rate - the real rate is a lot higher). 

It took time for Mugabe's money printing to be reflected in the inflation statistics 

As with socialisms disastrous economic management here, the current regime is being blamed