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This episode builds the analytical sequence from the GP/LP side: how a government that eliminates the productive collateral base of its financial system produces a banking crisis before it produces a monetary crisis, why the standard debt sustainability model misses the transmission mechanism, and what the leading indicators looked like in the public data before the spiral became irreversible. Three red flags, all in the public record before 2004: the banking sector NPL trajectory mapped against the quarterly Fast Track seizure announcements, the foreign exchange reserve coverage collapse through the six-week import threshold documented in the IMF's own Article IV reports, and the money supply versus GDP growth divergence that the RBZ's monetary policy committee knew about and was overridden on. The practical application: any economy where government policy impairs the productive collateral base of the banking system — land seizure, nationalization, sanctions-driven asset freeze, large-scale regulatory expropriation — carries banking sector NPL risk that will not appear in credit ratings until the impairment is fully realized. The lag is eighteen to twenty-four months. In Zimbabwe, it was calculable. In the jurisdictions where it's running today, it still is.

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The standard framework for modeling hyperinflation risk starts with money supply growth. Zimbabwe's collapse starts three years earlier — with a banking sector NPL ratio that crossed fifteen percent in 2002 and never recovered, driven not by a credit cycle but by a policy event with a legislative record.