hyperinflation
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She toted a small shopping bag and vowed to buy “the minimum,” now the custom in a once-wealthy South American nation that has suffered a decade of hyperinflation, ravaged wages, lost savings, mass displacement and migration — the equivalent of multiple Great Depressions.
From Los Angeles Times
For Torrealba, hyperinflation is official once prices rise by more than 50 percent for three consecutive months.
From Barron's
But definitions vary, and for other experts an annual rate of 500 percent, such as predicted by the IMF, already amounts to hyperinflation.
From Barron's
Second, some gold fans point back to instances such as the Weimar Republic in Germany in 1923, when the paper currency was rendered worthless by the greatest example of hyperinflation in recorded history.
From MarketWatch
A manager in the Novosibirsk region compared the situation to the hyperinflation experienced by post-Soviet Russia.
From BBC
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