Video: How the world vindicated Gideon Gono
3rd Feb 09, 4:36pm
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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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