Across our screens today:

• Zimbabweans launder money… with soap and water.
• Salaries of political leaders around the world compared to their countries’ GDP per person.
• Ben Bernanke steered the Fed to creating half of the U.S.’s money supply over the country’s 234 years.
• China property market beginning to collapse.
• Why “forever” stamps might be a good investment.
• Is Wal-Mart working to become, er, a bank? Sam’s Club, a division of Wal-Mart, begins to hand out $25,000 loans to small businesses.

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