Zimbabwe – Rolling Alpha

Printing Cash and Printing Money are not the same thing

Printing cash is a Central Bank's job. Printing money is something else.

Zimbabwe Dollar: The 2019 Edition

The Zimbabwe Dollar is back - but is it really here to stay? And what those RBZ measures really mean.

Zimbabwe Drops The RTGS Peg to the USD

We've stopped pretending that RTGS does not officially exist.

Zimbabwe and its new 2% money transfer tax

Dedollarisation, redollarisation, and money transfer tax in between.

Zimbabwe and its running parallel rates

Demonetising bond notes, arbitrages, Old Mutual shares, and why was the RTGS rate crashing last week?

Zimbabwe Cash Crisis: The Rand Option

The Zimbabwe cash crisis: illustrated. And how to adopt the Rand.

Money and its technological failures

Over the last few days, Zimbabwe’s mobile money system, Ecocash, has struggling to stay online. For non-Zimbabweans, it is hard to appreciate the scale of this problem. Zimbabwe’s economy is involuntarily cashless – which means that the primary methods of payment are debit cards, bank transfers, and mobile money. But for a country that is largely […]