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About Resource Curse
Resource Curse is a catalog of currencies destroyed in resource-rich, badly-governed economies — oil, copper, diamonds, and the kleptocracies that squandered them, from the Zimbabwe dollar to the Venezuelan bolivar. Each case is traced from the boom to the redenomination, the abandonment, or the devaluation that ended the old money.
What you'll find here
- The currency, the country, the year, and the verdict — stated up front, never buried
- The peak inflation rate and the highest banknote ever issued, in a four-cell stat bar
- A documented timeline, a three-act account, and exactly five contributing factors
- How the money died and the exact act that ended it — a new currency, a redenomination, a peg, a dollar, or a repudiation
- Transferable lessons, and real references from central banks, the IMF, and named scholarship
Resource Curse is part of Zero Hour — a reference network on dead currencies: the hyperinflations and monetary collapses, each resolved by the documented act that retired the old money.