AS ZIMBABWE’S economy continues to lurch from one crisis to the other, business leaders and economists say the government is running out of both time and “rope” to turn the situation around. This comes as rising inflation — put at more than 100 percent by many independent economists — as well as a rampant foreign exchange parallel market, shocking price hikes of goods, and shortages of fuel and basic commodities continue to ravage the local economy. And as if to stoke the fires further, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube recently indicated that the country’s $9,5 billion real time gross settlement (RTGS) deposits would soon be separated into “hard” and “non-hard” currency balances — without providing clarity as to how this would…