At this rate, there'll be massive hyperinflation of relegation points.
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It is suffering hyperinflation (prices are doubling every 25 days).
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Last year, soaring hyperinflation topped a staggering 1 million percent.
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Peru at that time was racked by hyperinflation and terrorism.
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The stricter the regime, the faster it can cure hyperinflation.
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Kuroda also said quantitative easing will not lead to hyperinflation.
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It's suffering from hyperinflation and widespread shortages of basic staples.
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You have once again entered the inglorious world of hyperinflation.
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The last bout of hyperinflation wiped out savers and pensioners.
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But you haven't seen social violence until you've seen hyperinflation.
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Hunger, hyperinflation, and skyrocketing malaria rates can have that effect.
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Hyperinflation confiscated the incomes, pensions and assets of many Peruvians.
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Venezuelans have already turned to mining bitcoin to overcome hyperinflation.
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But civil war and hyperinflation have created a water crisis.
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Venezuela is suffering from hyperinflation and shortages of basic goods.
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Unlike you, I actually spent time in Zimbabwe during hyperinflation.
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Inflation is bad, but hyperinflation is a totally different game.
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For those not enduring it, hyperinflation can seem mind-bendingly abstract.
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Hyperinflation is so disruptive no one can get used to it.
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The details of today's crisis and intense hyperinflation are widely shared.
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FOR those not enduring it, hyperinflation can seem mind-bendingly abstract.
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The country is suffering from hyperinflation, with prices doubling every month.
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Have you ever had to deal with export controls, or hyperinflation?
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The circulation of those notes, however, will only intensify the hyperinflation.
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In the world of government-supported money, hyperinflation is extraordinarily rare.
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Economic crises, hyperinflation, rage and suffering threatened to pull Germany apart.
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Venezuela's economy has cratered amid political turmoil, hyperinflation and food shortages.
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"We are still in hyperinflation," opposition lawmaker Alfonso Marquina told reporters.
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The country is suffering from hyperinflation, powers cuts, and food shortages.
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Hyperinflation is not, as some might assume, just inflation gone bad.
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In 2009, Zimbabwe had a hyperinflation rate of 231 million percent.
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Some fear the worst, with hyperinflation and the expropriation of savings.
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That is expectations - that 'I lost money in 2008' (to hyperinflation).
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But nothing you read can prepare you for life with hyperinflation.
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For those with access to dollars, living with hyperinflation is demoralizing.
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Venezuela is struggling under hyperinflation now approaching 2 million percent annually.
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In the worst month of Hungary's hyperinflation, it took just 15 hours.
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Venezuela has been suffering acute food shortages, soaring unemployment and massive hyperinflation.
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During Maduro's tenure, hyperinflation has set in and supermarket shelves have emptied.
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Venezuela is already suffering from hyperinflation, lack of hard currency and recession.
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Hyperinflation under Mr Maduro's incompetent and larcenous administration has destroyed Venezuelans' incomes.
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Since the hyperinflation of 2009, Zimbabwe depends largely on the US dollar.
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Despite wild hyperinflation, Venezuela's government has never increased the price of gasoline.
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Hyperinflation destroys businesses, undermines political systems and hits the poor especially hard.
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Venezuela's hyperinflation is so bad that food prices can double every week.
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Hyperinflation often occurs against the backdrop of war or other social chaos.
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Hyperinflation has skyrocketed and basic goods like food and medicine are scarce.
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Economists usually define hyperinflation as occurring when monthly rates exceed 50 percent.
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The central bank began printing money to compensate and hyperinflation took hold.
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Some economists, however, fear it could trigger hyperinflation and uncontrollable currency devaluation.
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Well, if you always make money by printing it, we'd have hyperinflation.
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They didn't really believe that a debt crisis and hyperinflation were looming.
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Widespread food shortages and hyperinflation marked the last decade of Zimbabwe's history.
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South Sudan's currency is in freefall and hyperinflation has squeezed virtually everyone.
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Hyperinflation has cut the minimum wage to less than $2.50 a month.
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Hyperinflation, according to an estimate this week, has exceeded 1 million percent.
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Hyperinflation has rendered the bolívar, the local currency, as worthless as confetti.
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Hyperinflation has long slashed their wages to a few dollars a month.
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Years of economic mismanagement have left Venezuela's economy in shambles, causing hyperinflation.
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In the worst month of its postwar hyperinflation, Hungarian prices rose by 153,900,000,000,000,000%.
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Since the hyperinflation of 2009, Zimbabwe has depended largely on the U.S. dollar.
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Is it biased for an economist to show that hyperinflation has negative consequences?
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In the worst month of its postwar hyperinflation, Hungarian prices rose by 41,900,000,000,000,000%.
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Though each episode of hyperinflation has its unique miseries, there are common patterns.
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For normal Venezuelans, the country's hyperinflation takes an exacting toll on daily life.
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Out-of-control hyperinflation has already devoured what was left of people's savings.
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It is not being presented as an emergency recipe to avert imminent hyperinflation.
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Zimbabwe's economy infamously suffered from hyperinflation in the 1990s and 2000s under Mugabe.
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More recent experience confirms that hyperinflation can end quickly under the right conditions.
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Hyperinflation has caused food and medicine shortages and destabilized the once robust economy.
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His policies caused economic collapse, hyperinflation and a mass exodus of hungry Zimbabweans.
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The country's currency, the bolívar, made worthless by hyperinflation, is hard to find.
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All three faced massive deficits that led to hyperinflation due to money printing.
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Chavista popular forces might rally behind Chavismo's leadership, despite pervasive starvation and hyperinflation.
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It was a turning point: economists signaled that we were officially in hyperinflation.
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Venezuela is suffering from deep economic recession, hyperinflation and food and medicine shortages.
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Accelerating inflation is especially dangerous in a country with a recent history of hyperinflation.
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When it was first introduced in America, Republicans accused the Fed of courting hyperinflation.
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This is hardly a sign that we are heading for Weimar Germany-style hyperinflation.
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But their slow and uneven adjustment means the pain of hyperinflation is shared haphazardly.
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WITH ECONOMIC turmoil crippling Venezuela, we ask what can be done to tame hyperinflation.
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It ended badly, in hyperinflation, slump and a failed bid to nationalise the banks.
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In 1923 Germany defeated hyperinflation by issuing the Rentenmark, a currency backed by land.
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Civil servants and soldiers go unpaid for months and hyperinflation renders money almost worthless.
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Political turmoil and economic collapse including hyperinflation have set Venezuela on a downward spiral.
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The country adopted the dollar as its currency in 2000 to escape from hyperinflation.
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These vignettes of hyperinflation would be funny if they did not cause such hardship.
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It abandoned its currency, the Zimbabwean dollar, in 2009 after hyperinflation rendered it worthless.
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After the hyperinflation of 2008, the country adopted the U.S. dollar as its own.
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In the extreme, hyperinflation created by central bank money printing sweeps all before it.
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With hyperinflation running at 313 million percent per month, the mint couldn't keep up.
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At the same time, Venezuela is struggling through hyperinflation, power cuts, and food shortages.Sen.
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Discontent has deepened across Venezuela's socioeconomic classes as hyperinflation has rendered wages virtually worthless.
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War has often played a catalytic role in hyperinflation, but it rarely acts alone.
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Lower oil prices and hyperinflation have had wide reaching consequences for the entire population.
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Poverty, hyperinflation and income inequality all lead to less than healthy behavior later on.
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Hyperinflation commonly leads to two shortsighted types of behavior: short-termism and ultra-conservativeness.
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"Despite this change, the country is still in hyperinflation," legislator Alfonso Marquina told reporters.
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Venezuela's own hard currency collapsed as the South American state grappled with crippling hyperinflation.
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Hyperinflation is what most Peruvians remember when they think of the late nineteen-eighties.
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As night follows day, Zimbabwe experienced its second bout of hyperinflation in a decade.
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"They'll probably blame Christopher Columbus for hyperinflation," scoffed an exiled opposition leader, Antonio Ledezma.
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Hyperinflation makes the most basic goods, and sometimes even medicine, beyond reach for many.
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About a tenth of the population has fled hyperinflation and shortages of food and medicines.
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The country had to ditch its currency after a bout of hyperinflation that hit 500bn%.
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Its declining prices, and the country's subsequent hyperinflation, hurt both current and former PDVSA employees.
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That, combined with hyperinflation in the oil-rich country, has led to the mass exodus.
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The southern African nation dumped its hyperinflation-wrecked currency in 2009 and adopted the dollar.
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Soaring inflation is eroding wages and pensions, bringing back memories of hyperinflation a decade ago.
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AB InBev also said it had taken an accounting hit due to hyperinflation in Argentina.
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It is what happened in Weimar Germany in the early 1920s, when hyperinflation ran rampant.
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Weary of war, hyperinflation, and economic collapse, Nicaraguans voted for the opposition: The Sandinistas lost.
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Zimbabwe abandoned its own currency, the Zimbabwean dollar, in 2009 after hyperinflation rendered it worthless.
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Civil servants and soldiers go unpaid for months and hyperinflation renders the money almost worthless.
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TV pundits hyperventilated about hyperinflation, and even seemingly more respectable voices denounced the Fed's actions.
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Hyperinflation and a failing economy led millions to flee before the desperation of recent days.
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During the Obama administration, he warned that the Fed was sowing the seeds of hyperinflation.
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There was total economic collapse with hyperinflation, shortages of every basic commodity: water, power, etc.
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Amid all this, it's easy to overlook the impact of something more abstract like hyperinflation.
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But the legacy of hyperinflation is insidious and pervasive, and it too will leave scars.
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Since then, many emerging-market economies have defeated not just hyperinflation but high inflation too.
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Venezuela's economy is suffering from hyperinflation, shortages in basic food and medicine and increasing lawlessness.
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In Brazil, with its history of hyperinflation and high interest rates, 2% is practically zero.
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The economic challenges before Zimbabwe are enormous: vast debts, a battered infrastructure, hyperinflation, soaring unemployment.
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The International Monetary Fund estimates that hyperinflation will reach over 10 million percent this year.
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But even for those in the business of selling food, hyperinflation is a losing game.
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More than 3 million Venezuelans have fled hyperinflation, food and medicine shortages and political crisis.
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Capital Economics studied hyperinflation in 21999 other economies, and found that "history suggests that some form of political transition seems likely over the next year or so…First, countries typically do not usually remain in hyperinflation for much longer than two years," Glossop noted.
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Although high, price increases remain far from the triple-digit hyperinflation Brazil saw in the 1990s.
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ANDREW ROSS SORKIN: You know, after the financial crisis in 210, you were calling for hyperinflation.
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Inflation has slightly decelerated in the past few months, taking South Sudan out of technical hyperinflation.
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Many of Venezuela's other problems, including hyperinflation, are consequences of these deeper troubles, Mr Hausmann argues.
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Mr Maduro's proposal for dealing with hyperinflation is simpler: just knock three zeros off the bolívar.
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Living with malnutrition and hyperinflation, many Venezuelans have crossed borders into Colombia and other neighboring nations.
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Analysts believe the true figure is at least 200% a year; some predict hyperinflation in 2016.
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Most Brazilians have endured bouts of hyperinflation until the creation of the real currency in 1994.
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Average Venezuelans struggle with food shortages, the result of either a lack of availability or hyperinflation.
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Countries with histories of high inflation can stagger on with it, rather than tumbling into hyperinflation.
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Hyperinflation has led to the expropriation of savings held by the general population and financial chaos.
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Maduro has also been accused of human rights violations and the country has struggled with hyperinflation.
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Hyperinflation has now reached a rate of 1 million percent per year, with signs of acceleration.
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Venezuela is struggling with hunger, preventable diseases and hyperinflation forecast at 10 million percent in 2019.
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With skyrocketing hyperinflation, it's near impossible at present to get basic food or medicine in Venezuela.
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Colombia and Chile have also taken in migrants fleeing hyperinflation and chronic shortages of basic goods.
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Once Latin America's most prosperous country, Venezuela is mired in hyperinflation, hunger, severe shortages and dysfunction.
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In 1990, three South American countries — Peru, Argentina and Brazil — were in the throes of hyperinflation.
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Venezuela is suffering from skyrocketing poverty, hyperinflation and an exodus of millions under Mr. Maduro's government.
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THIS YEAR marked a quarter of a century since Brazil beat hyperinflation with a conjuring trick.
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In 2000 Ecuador adopted the dollar after its people abandoned a currency rendered valueless by hyperinflation.
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Today Venezuela faces acute hyperinflation, which has led to widespread shortages of basic supplies, including food.
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Under Mugabe, Zimbabwe was exiled from the international community and saw its economy descend into hyperinflation.
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Hyperinflation set in and people needed wheelbarrows full of cash just to buy loaves of bread.
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Today, Venezuela suffers from hyperinflation and a chronic shortage of basic foodstuffs and life-saving medicine.
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Central Bank reserves are dwindling, oil production is falling, and the economy faces recession and hyperinflation.
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Then there was the government corruption, the potential for hyperinflation and fears their savings could be confiscated.
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The hitch is that Venezuela's currency, the bolivar, is collapsing amid a trend that economists call hyperinflation.
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But hyperinflation and default are hardly a walk in the park for those struggling to get by.
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By 7003 public debt had reached nearly 300% of GDP and hyperinflation peaked at 450% a year.
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The central bank on Tuesday unexpectedly released data confirming Venezuela is suffering hyperinflation and massive economic contraction.
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Finances were chaotic in the aftermath of independence: America's first currency, the Continental, was afflicted by hyperinflation.
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On top of shortages of food and medicines and rampant crime, the country has now entered hyperinflation.
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Many in the country fret that hyperinflation will return, fuelled by the government's printing of electronic dollars.
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Hyperinflation and depression—the economy has shrunk by half since Mr Maduro took over—make matters worse.
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Venezuela's currency, the bolívar, has suffered from hyperinflation as a result of government mismanagement and US sanctions.
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A political outsider, he was elected when his country faced a terrorist insurgency, hyperinflation and economic meltdown.
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As Peru went through years of hyperinflation and changed its currency twice, however, their value became uncertain.
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With his power consolidated, he must now tackle an economic crisis marked by widespread shortages and hyperinflation.
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He is promising to dollarize Venezuela's economy as a way to beat hyperinflation and regain investor confidence.
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No money for presents: "How hyperinflation stole Christmas in Venezuela," the WashPost reports in a front-pager.
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With out-of-control state spending and hyperinflation, the petro will, like the refurbished sovereign bolivar, collapse.
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After Peru's bout of hyperinflation in the early 1990s, the bonds lost virtually all of their value.
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Venezuela's economy is in tatters with food and medicine in short supply due to years of hyperinflation.
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Governments can also completely destroy the value of their currency through hyperinflation, as has happened throughout history.
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Venezuela is in the throes of deep recession and facing hyperinflation, with shortages of food and medicine.
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The declines have crippled its economy, which is plagued with hyperinflation, shortages of food, water and medicine.
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Hyperinflation running above 2 million percent per year in Venezuela has made the Venezuelan bolivar practically worthless.
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Hyperinflation, which is expected to reach ten million per cent this year, has left the currency worthless.
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But economists said that if Venezuela is to curb hyperinflation, it will have to stop printing money.
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Even Jackson Palmer, one of the founders of the coin, expressed concern about the hyperinflation of dogecoin.
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A decade of guerrilla war and deficit spending had whipped up a maelstrom of hyperinflation and shortages.
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The fastest-ever recorded hyperinflation resulted: At its peak in July 1946, prices doubled every 15 hours.
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When a lack of productive supply met an excess demand from cash, then hyperinflation was the result.
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Oil exporter Venezuela is suffering an economic collapse and hyperinflation under the leadership of President Nicolas Maduro.
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There's also a fear of hyperinflation and its destabilizing effects that dates back to the early 303s.
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Then there's the historical fear of hyperinflation and its destabilizing effects, dating back to the early 1920s.
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Multiple years of hyperinflation have turned everyone's savings into piles of bills that are worth close to nothing.
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Venezuela spiraled into its worst-ever economic crisis, with hyperinflation forecast to reach 10 million percent this year.
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That would complicate basic purchases in a country stricken by hyperinflation and a sixth year of economic contraction.
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Many Peruvians remember Mr Fujimori as a leader who defeated Shining Path, a guerrilla group, and tamed hyperinflation.
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They are among the currencies being used in Zimbabwe as a solution to the country's problems with hyperinflation.
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Hyperinflation, falling incomes and rampant unemployment in the first years of transition left many facing misery and want.
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For Zimbabweans, however, the cryptocurrency seems to offer rare protection from the onset of hyperinflation and financial implosion.
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Like an empowered authoritarian addicted to hyperinflation, the airlines for many years printed miles to raise extra cash.
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The BoT was founded in 1942, shortly before wartime hyperinflation that left a lasting impression on Thai policymakers.
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Like countless Venezuelans, Fonseca has seen her income eroded by hyperinflation that now tops 2 million percent annually.
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A modest stimulus might lift inflation and demand a bit, without leading to talk of Weimar-style hyperinflation.
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The protracted insecurity has hampered food production and disrupted markets, leading to hyperinflation - and sparking a food crisis.
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Most economists instead blame Venezuela's creaking state-led system for shortages, hyperinflation, and five years of economic contraction.
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Zimbabwe abandoned its own dollar in 2009 after years of hyperinflation had destroyed trust in the local unit.
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Zimbabwe, which suffered crippling hyperinflation under Mugabe, needs the International Monetary Fund to start giving it loans again.
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To service debts, Mugabe began printing money mindlessly, inaugurating an era of hyperinflation not witnessed since postwar Hungary.
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During the Obama years, he urged the Fed to aggressively raise interest rates, citing unfounded fears of hyperinflation.
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Venezuela has been devastated for years by hyperinflation and a failing economy that has led millions to flee.
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"Maybe they are a little bit fed up with digital, this hyperinflation of images everywhere," Ms. Knoppers said.
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But the country soon entered a disastrous economic collapse in which hyperinflation reached an estimated 2 million percent.
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Mr. Macri was the spreadsheet-wielding killjoy who was halting the festivities, cognizant that more spending courted hyperinflation.
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In the end, the Venezuelan humanitarian crisis will last much longer than President Maduro's regime and its hyperinflation.
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His economic policies tamed the country's hyperinflation, eventually setting Peru on a path of steady growth, which continues.
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The country, which suffered hyperinflation under Mugabe, needs the International Monetary Fund to start giving it loans again.
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The hyperinflation makes it really difficult to buy substantial food; we only eat carbohydrates like arepa every day.
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Mugabe's own time in power was marred by economic mismanagement, resulting in hyperinflation, and violent suppression of opponents.
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Hyperinflation topped 82,000 percent in July, resulting in a kilogram of rice selling for about 2.5 million bolivars.
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Pressure is building on Maduro, a socialist, to resign amid an economic crisis marked by widespread shortages and hyperinflation.
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Most economists instead blame shortages, hyperinflation, and five straights years of economic contraction on Venezuela's creaking state-led system.
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There have only been a few times — during war, cholera epidemics, or hyperinflation — when the country skipped the celebrations.
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Years of economic mismanagement by the socialist government have crippled the oil-rich nation with hyperinflation, shortages and misery.
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The crisis has revived memories of the hyperinflation of a decade ago that forced Zimbabwe to ditch its currency.
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Prices would change by the minute, causing stress revolving around the fluctuations, one of the devastating effects of hyperinflation.
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To Venezuelans such wisdom is essential, because when you are coping with hyperinflation, the long term is next week.
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It had abandoned the notes in 2009 after their value was destroyed by hyperinflation and instead adopted American dollars.
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As the experience of any number of emerging markets demonstrates, past a certain point, this approach leads to hyperinflation.
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Hyperinflation has turned everyone's savings to dust and made a scarcity of cash, grinding the economy to a stop.
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The socialist leader has overseen a long economic meltdown, marked by hyperinflation, mounting U.S. sanctions and collapsing oil production.
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Almost 2 million Venezuelans have fled since 2015, driven out by food and medicine shortages, hyperinflation, and violent crime.
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The petro was supposed to help his administration weather the hyperinflation that has rendered the bolivar all but worthless.
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That could lead to a default, or to a return of the hyperinflation that blighted the decade after 1985.
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Venezuela's hyperinflation has eroded salaries, meaning many baseball fans cannot spare 70,000 bolivares - roughly $3 - for a grandstand ticket.
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Pharaonic infrastructure projects helped stoke growth during the period but ultimately fed an explosion of public debt and hyperinflation.
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Crucial revenues from oil have declined as production plummets, and hyperinflation is expected to reach 13,000 percent this year.
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Japan had been defeated, but China was gripped by civil war and hyperinflation, and he was desperate for money.
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The U.S. has kept up sanctions on the socialist Maduro regime, while hyperinflation has left the nation's economy reeling.
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OPEC member Venezuela is in the grips of a prolonged recession, its economy dogged by hyperinflation and food shortages.
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Yet there is nothing amusing about the damage that hyperinflation can inflict on the lives of people and nations.
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There were the Glenn Beck/Ron Paul frothing-at-the-mouth Austrian types predicting hyperinflation just around the corner.
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The hyperinflation in Brazil in the 1980s and 1990s was fundamentally different from what Venezuela is going through today.
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Hyperinflation can be reined in, as the experiences of Israel and Latin America in the 1980s and 1990s show.
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Mnangagwa's administration has struggled to stabilize a moribund economy and curb hyperinflation while a severe drought has crippled productivity.
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Since 1743, the political crisis, the humanitarian crisis and hyperinflation in Venezuela have spurred an exodus of historic proportions.
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He might appoint a Fed chairman who believes in Modern Monetary Theory, which would be a recipe for hyperinflation.
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These have resulted in political persecution, a cash crunch and hyperinflation that hit the purchasing power of ordinary citizens.
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The political crisis was prompted by an economic meltdown of hyperinflation, mass unemployment and an exodus of desperate citizens.
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This brought about devastating hyperinflation that has destroyed the purchasing power of Venezuelans, particularly the poorest of the poor.
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His leadership has resulted in severe shortages of basic food and medical supplies and sparked unprecedented levels of hyperinflation.
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There was no run on the dollar or American treasuries, no hyperinflation, no double-dip recession, no China crash.
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For Mr. Maduro, hyperinflation is the force that is rallying half the world and his entire country against him.
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Mr. Alcalá said Venezuela's economic crunch of hyperinflation and food shortages drove the passengers — mostly women — onto the boat.
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Opposition critics accuse Maduro of fabricating or exaggerating security incidents to distract from hyperinflation and Soviet-style product shortages.
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Venezuela is suffering under the fifth year of a severe economic crisis that has sparked malnutrition, hyperinflation and mass emigration.
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Some fear political persecution by Nicolás Maduro's dictatorship; many have simply had enough of hyperinflation, crime and collapsed public services.
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Recently, it has been the entry point for tens of thousands of Venezuelans fleeing hunger, violence and hyperinflation at home.
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Lorusso's packaging plant, Distribuidora Marina, had already struggled through years of hyperinflation, vanishing client orders, and a flight of employees.
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Venezuela's economy is seen shrinking 8 percent this year, with hyperinflation averaging 481.5 percent, according to the International Monetary Fund.
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The violence has paralyzed oil production, fueled hyperinflation and plunged parts of the country into famine briefly earlier this year.
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And mine couldn't possibly explain to me that war had led to hyperinflation and sanctions, which were starving the country.
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Many still have strong memories of a 2001 bank run that led to years of hyperinflation, political instability and poverty.
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But what accelerates this process, turning a jump in prices into hyperinflation, is the impact of inflation on government revenue.
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The MMT reply to this is simple: No, our approach won't lead to hyperinflation, because we take inflation incredibly seriously.
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To finance the government's domestic bills, Mr Maduro has revved up the printing presses, setting off a bout of hyperinflation.
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It conquered hyperinflation after the rate had reached billions of percent, before ZANU-PF regained sole power four years ago.
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This antipathy to risk stems from the economic crisis of the 20153s when hyperinflation wiped out savings and bankrupted millions.
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And, hyperinflation, mounting U.S. sanctions and collapsing oil production prompted Maduro to start selling off gold about a year ago.
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There was, in theory, no way to tamper with the accounting, no possibility of counterfeit, and no threat of hyperinflation.
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Severe food shortages and record hyperinflation in the oil-rich nation have put buying food out of reach for many.
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Lorusso's packaging plant, Distribuidora Marina, had already struggled through years of hyperinflation, vanishing client orders and an exodus of employees.
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Rouhani has restored a sense of security by preventing hyperinflation and shortages, but unemployment remains high, particularly among young people.
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Unemployment in Venezuela is on pace to exceed 25 percent, while hyperinflation has erased the value of Venezuela's bolivar currency.
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An economic downturn has driven more than 3 million Venezuelans to emigrate, fleeing hyperinflation and shortages of food and medicine.
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The country faces acute poverty, a mass migration crisis, chronic hyperinflation, decimated health and educational services and cratering oil production.
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Mr Maduro, whose misrule has led to hyperinflation and food shortages, retains the support of Russia, Turkey and, lukewarmly, China.
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The law prompted an exodus in the tens of thousands and a downward spiral in the economy led to hyperinflation.
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Because of chronic medicine shortages and the hyperinflation in Venezuela in the past eight months, getting medicines is extremely hard.
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President Robert Mugabe's administration addressed rampant hyperinflation in 2008 by ditching the Zimbabwean dollar and replacing it with US currency.
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All creditor nations would be ready to take urgent steps, such as debt restructuring, needed to end the catastrophic hyperinflation.
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The hyperinflation he cites, and all other problems, basically stem from the despotic, violent and dogmatic rule of Robert Mugabe.
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But business leaders said the shift may have limited impact with Venezuela deep in hyperinflation after five years of recession.
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Why it matters: This is part of an economic recovery strategy that Maduro says will ease hyperinflation in the country.
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The country, which suffered crippling hyperinflation under Mugabe, desperately needs the International Monetary Fund to start giving it loans again.
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At 75.86% in April, Zimbabwe's inflation is still nowhere near the 500 billion% reached during the hyperinflation era of 2008.
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Venezuela's economy is in a sixth year of recession, suffering hyperinflation and shortages of basic goods like food and medicine.
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In the 1980s, I saw firsthand the inability to curb hyperinflation and a virulent insurgency that brought down political parties.
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But hyperinflation and U.S. sanctions, which prohibit American companies from doing business with Venezuela's public sector, are complicating those methods.
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Venezuela is in the throes of a major economic crisis with millions suffering food and medicine shortages, hyperinflation and disease.
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That imbalance's effect on the economy is exacerbated by the American dollar, which Zimbabwe adopted in 2009 to combat hyperinflation.
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Previously, he had blamed Washington for the acute food shortages, soaring unemployment and massive hyperinflation that has wiped out savings.
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More than 4 million Venezuelans have left their country in recent years, fleeing severe food and medicine shortages and hyperinflation.
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Correction: This story has been updated to correct the period of hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic from 1930s to 1920s.
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Due to hyperinflation, that is worth just $300 today but the court said it should be adjusted for price rises.
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Millions of Venezuelans remain anxious about the future of their country, already crippled by hyperinflation and food and drug shortages.
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A deadly bait and switch in Aleppo; Congress tries to get its head around the Russia hacks; hyperinflation in Venezuela.
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Access to critical medicine and basic goods dwindles by the day, while the prices for such goods soar from hyperinflation.
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LIKE the governors of the Reichsbank, who kept on speeding up the printing presses as Germany plunged into ever-steepening hyperinflation in the 1920s, insisting that the real problem was a shortage of banknotes, Zimbabwe's government claimed to have overturned the laws of economics during its own bout of hyperinflation nearly a decade ago.
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The purpose of the new currency was to normalize day-to-day transactions as the country battles through years of hyperinflation.
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In 1994, the government's finance minister Fernando Henrique Cardoso produced Plano Real (Real Plan) to curb hyperinflation and stabilize the economy.
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Despite warnings that it could eventually cause hyperinflation, the "bond note" currency is still trading at par with the U.S. dollar.
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Previous downturns were often accompanied by sovereign debt crises, capital flight and hyperinflation, none of which happened during the current slump.
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The exodus, driven by violence, hyperinflation and shortages of food and medicines, amounts to around one in 12 of the population.
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He admitted that hyperinflation had been caused by printing bolívares to finance a massive budget deficit and promised a "zero deficit".
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Venezuela's economic meltdown, including hyperinflation, is now putting a financial strain on the health system in Cucuta and other Colombian cities.
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In 2009, because of hyperinflation, Zimbabwe began using U.S. dollars, South African rands and British pounds instead of its local currency.
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As significant was Mr Maduro's unprecedented admission that the government has caused hyperinflation by printing bolívares to finance massive budget deficits.
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The escalating crisis in Venezuela has seen sky-high hyperinflation, widespread hunger and a large-scale exodus out of the country.
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The holders of Argentine currency bear many scars, including hyperinflation, devaluation, redenomination, and the corralito that froze their deposits in 2001.
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His supporters say he saved Peru from hyperinflation and Maoist terrorism and set it on the path of sustained economic growth.
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He argues it&aposs the fastest way to halt hyperinflation expected to reach 13,000 percent this year and stabilize the economy.
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Now, Venezuela's hyperinflation and rampant crime make it too dangerous to travel with the bundles of dollars needed by mountaineering scientists.
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But now it is a perilous shortage of dollars and hyperinflation that topped 800 percent last year that is hampering operations.
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Bitcoin might triumph if currencies like the dollar and the euro succumb to hyperinflation, but there is no sign of that.
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Others choose to join, lured by food and protection in a country whose economy has been wrecked by conflict and hyperinflation.
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Hyperinflation has wiped out salaries and the value of the currency, the bolivar, sending prices for all kinds of goods skyrocketing.
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Hyperinflation, which hit more than 800 percent last year, has put the price of imported food beyond the reach of many.
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Oil is the financial backbone of the country's economy, which is suffering from hyperinflation and financial sanctions by the U.S. government.
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Austria and Germany had to deal with the humiliation of defeat and a punitive peace, and were quickly hit by hyperinflation.
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The country has used mainly American dollars since 2009 after a bout of hyperinflation destroyed the value of its own currency.
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In that year, hyperinflation wiped out many people's pensions and savings and forced the country to dump the Zimbabwe dollar currency.
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Factories were closing, unemployment was rising, and the country abandoned its currency for the US dollar in 2009 because of hyperinflation.
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The motive for the hike was to combat Cairo's hyperinflation and it came at the recommendation of the International Monetary Fund.
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Credit risk in Venezuela, where political turmoil has led to economic collapse and hyperinflation, prompted a writedown of 433 million euros.
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He is credited with defeating the Shining Path terrorists who destabilized the country, and his austere economic policies reined in hyperinflation.
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The oil-dependent country lapsed into political turmoil and economic misery, including hyperinflation and massive shortages of food and other necessities.
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Venezuela has just taken drastic and unprecedented steps to stabilize its currency as it grapples with hyperinflation and other economic issues.
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This good news is that this new wave of hyperinflation in the pharmaceutical industry has been receiving attention on Capitol Hill.
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The five-digit inflation has earned Venezuela comparisons to the hyperinflation of Zimbabwe and Weimar Germany from the International Monetary Fund.
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Their country's hyperinflation has reduced their savings to pocket change, and what little they can gather simply isn't enough to live.
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Hyperinflation and its common companion, chronic shortages of food and medicine, have impoverished almost all of the country's 2100 million people.
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It is currently experiencing its worst economic crisis in history, marked by hyperinflation as well as chronic food and medicine shortages.
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Turkey has historically been haunted by strong price pressures, and it only really got on top of hyperinflation 15 years ago.
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As Venezuela plunges into hyperinflation, we are surrounded by images of huge piles of cash being used to buy simple groceries.
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Maduro is hoping cryptocurrencies will help Venezuela skirt U.S. financial sanctions as it struggles under hyperinflation and a collapsing socialist economy.
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The oil-dependent state is struggling to cope with hyperinflation — estimated by Venezuela's opposition party to hit 1,400 percent in 2018.
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And here's the thing: Right-wing hack economists are, with hardly any exceptions, hard-money, hyperinflation-is-around-the-corner types.
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At home, hyperinflation led the president to instate a new currency, which in recent months has been losing value as well.
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Traditionally, other governments have only embarked on demonetization schemes in times of extreme need, such as hyperinflation, political upheaval and wars.
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Venezuelans, already suffering from hyperinflation and widespread shortages of food and medicine, say the crisis has worsened over the past month.
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This alternative calculation turns the astronomical percentages of hyperinflation into more mundane intervals of time: millions into days and quintillions into hours.
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Maduro has presided over Venezuela's spiral into its worst-ever economic crisis, with hyperinflation forecast to reach 10 million percent this year.
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Maduro and his government have been under increasing international pressure amid protests fueled by hyperinflation, power cuts and food and medicine shortages.
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Aside from cases where hyperinflation has rendered a currency worthless, such swaps generally take place over long periods to avoid disrupting commerce.
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Central bank independence from short-term politics is seen as important to prevent influence that could lead to runaway debt and hyperinflation.
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During Maduro's rule, oil production has plunged while millions have left amid hyperinflation and as consumer goods have vanished from market shelves.
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Zimbabwe adopted the U.S. dollar as its official currency in 2009, when most Zimbabweans had already ditched the hyperinflation-wrecked Zimbabwe Dollar.
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But Caracas in Venezuela claims the title of the least expensive city in the world, thanks to hyperinflation and the plummeting bolívar.
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Venezuela's scramble for cash, owing to hyperinflation caused by economic mismanagement, has led to an increase in the risks taken by pilots.
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There is turbulence, too, in Zimbabwe, where the central bank's "bond notes", a kind of local dollar, are reviving memories of hyperinflation.
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Two years ago money in Zimbabwe was simple: everyone used the American dollar, introduced in 2009 after hyperinflation destroyed the Zimbabwean version.
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The IMF had qualms about it, but was won over when the scheme succeeded in killing hyperinflation and promoting rapid economic growth.
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Defeat led to punishing reparations, unbearable state debt and hyperinflation during the Weimar Republic, leading to a devastating devaluation of saving accounts.
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It was used in post-communist Poland and Russia, and in other countries like Chile and Bolivia, where it successfully ended hyperinflation.
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Although the government is responsible for hyperinflation and shortages of basic goods, the president, Nicolás Maduro, is expected to win re-election.
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The aid shipments have been meant in part to dramatize the hyperinflation and shortages of food and medicine that are gripping Venezuela.
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Now, with Venezuela struggling with a fifth year of recession and its economy wracked by hyperinflation, there are few signs of activity.
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Memories are still fresh of the hyperinflation considered by the International Monetary Fund as the worst for any country not at war.
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Hyperinflation-stricken Venezuela is in its fifth year of recession, prompting a surge in emigration that has overwhelmed its South American neighbors.
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He's basically sent the Czech Player of the Year Award into an irreversible spiral of hyperinflation, devaluing it with his constant excellence.
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Struggling with severe food and medicine shortages, soaring crime rates and extreme hyperinflation, 1.6 million people fled the country between 2015-2017.
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Because Zimbabwe discontinued its currency in 2009, following a disastrous cycle of hyperinflation, Zimbabweans can't use credit cards to make purchases abroad.
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He examined four great inflations in the 1920s and showed that once a credible policy "regime change" occurred, hyperinflation ended in weeks.
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Maduro is hoping crypto-currencies will help Venezuela skirt U.S. financial sanctions as it struggles under hyperinflation and a collapsing socialist economy.
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Mobile payment apps, for example, attract customers who do not have enough paper money, which is in short supply due to hyperinflation.
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A chaotic land-reform program, coupled with hyperinflation that saw the world's first trillion dollar notes, ravaged the economy during Mugabe's rule.
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But for much of the last decade, it has grappled with a hyperinflation crisis that has caused shortages of food and medicine.
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Dejected retailers make dozens of trips to the bank in hopes of depositing several pounds' worth of bills made worthless by hyperinflation.
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Its swift unraveling is the latest indignity for a country in economic collapse, where hyperinflation has plunged millions into poverty and hunger.
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Central banks in Venezuela, Zimbabwe, and Argentina all printed money to please politicians in recent years — resulting in hyperinflation and economic collapse.
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Amid this aggressive devaluation and monetary expansions due to salaries and bonuses, we are expecting a much more aggressive stage of hyperinflation.
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The occupation, which lasted two and a half years and was met with passive resistance and hyperinflation, seemed to prove Keynes's point.
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New leader Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has struggled to stabilize the moribund economy and curb hyperinflation while a severe drought has crippled productivity.
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Mansions and masterworks have been known to maintain their value even in the worst periods of hyperinflation in any country you name.
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Inside Venezuela, the military's ranks have been decimated as thousands of soldiers have deserted because hyperinflation has rendered their paychecks nearly worthless.
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Rolling suitcases behind them, some walk along highways, their salaries so obliterated by Venezuela's hyperinflation that bus tickets are out of reach.
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Second, both sides should agree to an interim government of experts to help bring Venezuela's hyperinflation and economic collapse to an end.
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Money changers sit at tables stacked with wads of Venezuelan currency, made nearly worthless by hyperinflation under President Nicolas Maduro's socialist government.
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Other grey swan calls on the Nomura list include an Italian recovery, hyperinflation in the U.S. and a comeback in the Chinese Yuan.
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The output drop is likely to worsen a bitter recession and hyperinflation that have poor Venezuelans skipping meals or eating from the garbage.
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Venezuela's president, Nicolás Maduro, announced a series of measures to shore up the economy, which is suffering from a deep depression and hyperinflation.
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The economic repercussions have been similarly severe; Venezuela's hyperinflation has soared to 85033 million percent since 2018, according to the International Monetary Fund.
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It is hard to fathom how a government can get its economic policy so wrong when the effects of hyperinflation are so severe.
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Falcon&aposs backers showed their dissatisfaction with hyperinflation by tearing up worthless 500-bolivar notes and throwing them into the air like confetti.
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Zimbabwe, which adopted the U.S. dollar after hyperinflation left its own currency worthless in 2009, is gripped by acute shortages of cash dollars.
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In 2009 hyperinflation caused by reckless government spending and money-printing forced it to abandon the Zimbabwean dollar and adopt the American greenback.
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Zimbabwe ditched its own currency for the U.S. dollar and other currencies in 2009, after hyperinflation reached 500 billion percent the previous year.
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Spain's fourth-biggest company said the growth forecasts assumed constant exchange rates everywhere apart from Venezuela and excluded adjustment for hyperinflation in Argentina.
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Peer-to-peer trading volumes for Bitcoin have risen sharply in recent weeks, with the bolivar currency rendered practically worthless amid soaring hyperinflation.
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In Argentina, another of its big emerging markets, hyperinflation has kept shoppers away from stores and led to a 4% drop in volumes.
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In Argentina, another of its big emerging markets, hyperinflation has kept shoppers away from stores and led to a 4% drop in volumes.
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Experts say the country, plagued by hyperinflation and a shortage of basic goods, will almost definitely default — the question is how, and when.
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But as the oil revenues dried up and Venezuela's economy spiraled into recession and hyperinflation, her support for his successor began to waver.
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Despite the world's largest crude reserves, its population is suffering from food and medicine shortages; hyperinflation could reach 10 million percent this year.
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Under the two leaders' rule, the oil-dependent country has endured political tumult and economic misery, including food and medicine shortages, and hyperinflation.
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His strong hand is credited with defeating the Shining Path terrorists who destabilized the country, and his austere economic policies reined in hyperinflation.
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In terms of transfers, wages and so on, the Premier League and its European associates are already suffering from little short of hyperinflation.
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President Nicolas Maduro's socialist government has managed to bring down hyperinflation by imposing strict reserve requirements on banks, reducing credit available to businesses.
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Along with hyperinflation, Venezuelans are suffering through food and medicine shortages, rising crime and water, power and transportation networks that simply don't work.
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Details of Weimar Germany's war debt, hyperinflation, mass unemployment and ineffective domestic policies enrich the emotional impact of Sander's portraits of ordinary people.
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"If things continue to deteriorate like they have, it is probable that prices can snowball into a hyperinflation scenario," van der Linde said.
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Those who remained have borne the brunt of hyperinflation and a growing shortage of basic provisions needed to survive, like food and medicine.
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It would be a chance to end the starvation and shortages, the hyperinflation, and state violence his country has suffered from for years.
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Under his leadership, the country's economy has spiraled downward, with hyperinflation reaching one million percent, and food, water and medicine supplies running low.
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The point is people in countries that have experienced bouts of hyperinflation take a long time to learn to deal properly with money.
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JOHANNESBURG, Feb 25 (Reuters) - South African supermarket chain Shoprite Holdings missed half-year earnings forecasts on Tuesday, hit by hyperinflation accounting in Angola.
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CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela's government began to issue new bank notes on Monday to replace the 100-bolívar bill, made virtually worthless by hyperinflation.
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He said President Nicolas Maduro's government, faced with widespread discontent over hyperinflation and food shortages, was resorting to violence to intimidate its adversaries.
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Hundreds are rallying to demonstrate against hyperinflation, caused by the anticipated reinstatement of restrictions and economic mismanagement on the part of the regime.
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Zimbabwe,which adopted the U.S. dollar after hyperinflation left its own currency worthless in 2009, is gripped by acute shortages of cash dollars.
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Maduro's government also stops companies from raising prices to keep up with hyperinflation, sometimes forcing companies to sell below the cost of production.
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Governments can be tempted to print money recklessly or seize wealth brazenly from their citizens — Venezuelan hyperinflation and Indian demonetization are recent examples.
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Hyperinflation has rendered wages virtually worthless, people are dying of starvation and lack of medical care, and millions have fled to neighboring countries.
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During this period Zimbabwe ran large fiscal deficits financed by printing money and experienced the second most severe case of hyperinflation in history.
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As Venezuela's political crisis reaches new heights and international pressure mounts against Nicolás Maduro, hyperinflation and the hunger it has sown could worsen.
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The Venezuelan opposition has often staged huge street protests against Maduro but failed to dislodge him despite a deep economic recession and hyperinflation.
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T=13. Caracas, Venezuela — Venezuela's economy is one of the most dysfunctional in the world, with hyperinflation wreaking havoc among the country's populace.
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The opposition blames the hyperinflation on strict currency controls, enacted 15 years ago by former President Hugo Chavez, as well as excessive money printing.
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The government has embraced cryptocurrency as an answer to hyperinflation and sanctions, exerting centralized control over how it's used to ensure the Petro's supremacy.
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By the 1980s the aftermath of previous decades' political turmoil and economic excess became known and a newly democratic Brazil struggled to control hyperinflation.
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The notes will be the first printed by Zimbabwe since it abandoned its currency in 2009 for American dollars during a bout of hyperinflation.
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Assessing the true value of zollars is difficult but economists have revived a gauge used during the hyperinflation era - the Old Mutual Implied Rate.
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Some experts believe that in order to regain control over Venezuela's monetary system and zero out hyperinflation, drastic decisions will need to be taken.
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From 1986 through 1993, governments spent generously on wasteful pork barrel projects, financed by printing money, leading to hyperinflation in the thousands of percent.
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Zimbabwe abandoned its currency in 2008 after hyperinflation hit 500 billion percent, wiping out pensions, savings and any vestiges of confidence in the currency.
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President Nicolas Maduro has presided over Venezuela's spiral into its worst-ever economic crisis, with hyperinflation forecast to reach 10 million percent this year.
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BLACKOUTS AND WATER SHORTAGES Venezuela's economy is in a sixth year of recession, suffering hyperinflation and shortages of basic goods like food and medicine.
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But their increasing frequency and severity is adding to the desperation of Venezuelans, already living through hyperinflation and six straight years of economic contraction.
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Oil exports are the financial backbone of Venezuela's economy, which is struggling to overcome hyperinflation, a long-standing recession and scarcity of basic goods.
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The strike was over salaries that the judges say have been rendered practically worthless by hyperinflation in a country in civil war since 2013.
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Central bank independence from short-term politics is seen as important to prevent influence that could lead to runaway debt, hyperinflation and financial instability.
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Inflation raced to 97.85% in May, eroding salaries and savings and causing Zimbabweans to fear a return to the hyperinflation era a decade ago.
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Mnangagawa has pushed reform in Zimbabwe in an attempt to heal the economic wounds left from previous decades of mismanagement, which resulted in hyperinflation.
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Venezuela, suffering heavy state repression, gang violence, hyperinflation and a widespread food shortage, has been named one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises.
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"Food is now in hyperinflation," said opposition lawmaker Angel Alvarado, adding that the food sector had seen price rises of 51 percent in August.
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The International Monetary Fund has forecast that hyperinflation will reach a staggering 10 million% in 2019, putting the most basic supplies out of reach.
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The International Monetary Fund projected this week that Venezuela's hyperinflation will soar to 13,000 percent this year, from an estimated 2,400 percent last year.
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Faced with hyperinflation, crippling food and medicine shortages, limited electricity and an oppressive dictatorship, around 453,000 Venezuelans a day are fleeing to surrounding countries.
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Venezuela is mired in a deep economic crisis marked by widespread food and medicine shortages, while hyperinflation has all but rendered its currency worthless.
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Maduro's regime has become increasingly autocratic amid growing public discontent over a crippling economic crisis that has resulted in massive food shortages and hyperinflation.
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He maneuvered ruthlessly toward this goal, aided by widespread despair over hyperinflation and then the Great Depression, until his triumphant elevation to the chancellorship.
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But recently something has changed, and it's one that may have major ramifications for how we take care of patients– hyperinflation in drug pricing.
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It always led to crisis: hyperinflation for Israel in 1980s; an I.M.F. bailout for India in 1991; a banking meltdown for Sweden in 1992.
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His bus driver's salary could not keep pace with Venezuela's hyperinflation, which the International Monetary Fund projects will hit 9003 million percent this year.
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Millions of people have emigrated, and the roughly 30 million who remain are plagued by hyperinflation and shortages of medicines, food, electricity and jobs.
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Under his leadership, the country's economy has spiraled downward, with hyperinflation reaching one million percent, and food, water and medicine supplies are running low.
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The end of his term was marred by an escalating war with Shining Path guerrillas, hyperinflation surpassing 2,000,000 percent and accusations of widespread corruption.
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An even more severe hyperinflation followed the end of World War II, when Hungary printed notes of ever-higher value to finance its recovery.
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Venezuelans fleeing hyperinflation and shortages of food and medicine have overwhelmed border areas in neighboring countries and sent regional countries scrambling to help them.
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Hyperinflation Maduro's main solution to the growing crisis has been to print money, but this has simply served to send inflation through the roof.
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It was only after I started writing about it that I realized that hyperinflation was also a major contributor to my unhealthy eating habits.
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Mugabe left behind an economy wrecked by hyperinflation and deeply entrenched corruption, and a raging political rivalry between ZANU-PF and the opposition MDC.
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But while Mr. Maduro has firm control over the country, Venezuela is on its knees economically, buckled by hyperinflation and a history of mismanagement.
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Years of financial mismanagement led to a serious crisis in 2016, when plummeting oil triggered hyperinflation and massive shortages of food and other necessities.
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The country, hurt by years of hyperinflation and shortages of food and medicine, was paralyzed on Friday by the worst power blackout in decades.
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Venezuela is currently facing hyperinflation, the collapse of its currency, the bolivar, and shortages in food and other basic necessities due to price controls.
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And, in particular, can it be done by the same government that has delivered hyperinflation, a deep recession, famine, higher indebtedness and political instability?
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Purchasing power across the entire country has hit an all-time low, as hyperinflation, devaluation, and unpaid public salaries drive Yemenis deeper into poverty.
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The South American county is in chaos as Guaido wrestles for control with President Nicolas Maduro, who's overseen a period of hyperinflation and poverty.
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U.N. rights expert Hilal Elver warned last month that poor rains and erratic weather combined with hyperinflation had left 5.5 million people food insecure.
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In 2018, the Venezuelan government devalued its currency by 95% due to hyperinflation, prompting more than 400,000 Venezuelans to flee from the economic collapse.
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Venezuela is mired in a deep economic crisis marked by widespread food and medicine shortages and hyperinflation, while millions have fled to neighboring countries.
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The Venezuelan economy, beset by unemployment, hyperinflation and severe shortages, has shrunk by half since 2013, and millions of people have fled the country.
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"It is the rule, not the exception, that currencies evaporate due to hyperinflation, government default or expropriation, or a losing a war," he argues.
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Venezuela is currently embroiled in a worsening economic crisis triggered by the fall of oil prices and characterized by a shrinking economy and hyperinflation.
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According to the assembly's calculations, Venezuela entered hyperinflation, for which the benchmark is usually a 50 percent monthly inflation figure, at the end of 2017.
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Wayne McCurrie, portfolio manager at FNB Wealth and Investments, said Magashule's comments brought to mind the money-printing in neighbouring Zimbabwe that led to hyperinflation.
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The value starts with international transfers and asset conversion protected from hyperinflation, but ultimately, he said, you still run into the crypto-to-cash problem.
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Zimbabwe's currency problems date back to the hyperinflation era of post-independence leader Robert Mugabe, who Mnangagwa replaced after an army coup in November 2017.
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And the family's savings had been devastated by the nation's hyperinflation, limiting Cordero's children to a diet of rice, beans, pasta and fried corn patties.
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Zimbabwe abandoned its own currency in 2009 in favour of the U.S. dollar to end hyperinflation, which had hit 500 billion percent the year before.
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His economic adviser, Francisco Rodríguez, a former Wall Street banker, proposes replacing the debased bolívar with the dollar to end hyperinflation and the economic slump.
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Brazil has long had one of the world's highest interest rates among major economies after going through many episodes of hyperinflation over the past century.
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One justification for the existence of bitcoin is that central banks, via quantitative easing (QE), are debasing fiat money and laying the path to hyperinflation.
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That led to massive hyperinflation and food shortages that effectively collapsed the country's economy: Experts put the cost to Zimbabwe's economy at around $20 billion.
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Zimbabwe's previous homegrown currency was destroyed by the hyperinflation of 22016-08, forcing the country to adopt the American dollar (and other foreign currencies) instead.
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Oil production is the lifeblood of Venezuela's economy, but its crude exports have tumbled sharply in recent years as the country suffers a hyperinflation collapse.
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Two waves of major electricity outages plunged Venezuela into darkness last month, putting even more strain on a nation struggling with food shortages and hyperinflation.
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Millions of people have been driven out of the country amid hyperinflation, power cuts and severe shortages of basic items — such as food and medicine.
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At one point, the Iranian rial fell by up to 80%, the price of basic goods skyrocketed and the economy suffered a period of hyperinflation.
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But Zimbabweans are still traumatized by hyperinflation, which hit 500 billion percent in 2008 and left the local currency worthless, wiping out savings and pensions.
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Since Maduro took office in 2013, hyperinflation, dire food shortages, and unchecked violence have put an already sputtering country on the verge of total collapse.
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The porous 2,200-km (1,370-mile) border is a hub for smuggling and the transit of Venezuelan migrants fleeing hyperinflation and their country's political crisis.
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By 20083 Zimbabwe was racked by hyperinflation so crippling that beggars who were offered billion-Zimbabwe-dollar bills would frown and reject them (see chart).
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She built on her father's support among the poor, who remember his crushing of hyperinflation and terrorism, and his opening of schools and health clinics.
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The dispute turns in part on how to update their value, given that Peru went through hyperinflation and two currency reforms after they were issued.
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The major oil-producing nation has been struggling with hyperinflation, recession, food shortages and attempts to restructure foreign debt in order to avoid a default.
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In early 1989, Poland was on the brink of catastrophe, with martial law, a hugely unpopular Communist government, a collapsed economy and an incipient hyperinflation.
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Zimbabwe's economy has been struggling for five years to recover from a catastrophic recession that was marked by billion percent hyperinflation and widespread food shortages.
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Turkey only really got on top of its hyperinflation problem 13 years ago so the ghosts could come back if Ankara ever starts printing money.
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More than 3 million people are believed to have fled Venezuela amid a deep economic crisis marked by shortages of food and medicine and hyperinflation.
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Two waves of major electricity outages plunged Venezuela into darkness last month, putting even more strain on a nation struggling with food shortages and hyperinflation.
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Today, as the nation's hyperinflation continues to skyrocket, a cafe con leche costs 22012 million bolivars — or a mere 22017 U.S. cents, according to Bloomberg.
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Since the end of January, Venezuelans have taken to the streets to call out the shortage of food and supplies, aggressive hyperinflation, and Maduro's regime.
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On the right, the great socialist specter is not a hostile superpower but Venezuela, currently in the throes of hyperinflation, food shortages and mass misery.
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"It's a cosmetic thing that's happening, the zeros," said Steve Hanke, an applied economics professor at Johns Hopkins University who has advised governments facing hyperinflation.
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Price stability is seen as a key part of the German psyche following a prolonged period of hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic in the 1930s.
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But its fuel prices have remained nearly flat for years despite hyperinflation that the International Monetary Fund has projected would reach 1,000,000 percent this year.
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Almost 2 million Venezuelans have fled the ailing oil-rich nation since 2015, driven out by brutal food and medicine shortages, hyperinflation, and violent crime.
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Hyperinflation (like extreme income inequality, which unfortunately is still a problem) was the result of gross economic mismanagement but was not coupled with tyrannical oppression.
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The South American country, which is suffering an economic collapse and hyperinflation under the leadership of President Nicolas Maduro, is a failed state, Pompeo said.
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The country with the world's highest oil reserves suffers from hyperinflation, a nearly 20 percent economic contraction last year and shortages of food and medicine.
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In Venezuela, for example, a decade's worth of economic recession has led to hyperinflation that has, at times, led to inflation of over 13,85033 percent.
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In its last official figures, inflation hit more than 175% in June, its highest level since hyperinflation under Mugabe wiped out the economy in 2009.
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In the rest of Africa, reported earnings, which includes the hyperinflation accounting, were down 79.8% year-on-year, reflecting difficult conditions in Zimbabwe, it said.
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Violence has prevented many farmers from harvesting crops and the scarcity of food has been compounded by hyperinflation, triggering famine in parts of South Sudan.
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Historically, we would expect a country in our position to be faced with hyperinflation, a marked decrease in the standard of living, and mass emigration.
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The father of five said his family has been forced to cut down on meals as the price of basic commodities soars thanks to hyperinflation.
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A steep decline in production from Venezuela, whose economy has been crippled by hyperinflation, has also added to pressure on the cartel to boost production.
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In office, Mr. Fujimori helped tame hyperinflation, unemployment and mismanagement; unleashed economic growth and a rise in standards of living; and curbed the cocaine trade.
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For years, he tried to make it as a lawyer here, but in times of hyperinflation, everyone is constantly getting poorer, including a lawyer's clients.
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Check. Nicolás Maduro, the current president, raised it no fewer than six times last year (though it makes no difference in the face of hyperinflation).
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Reeling from a fifth year of recession, falling oil production and U.S. sanctions, Venezuela is seeing growing levels of malnutrition and hyperinflation, and mass emigration.
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Cuba's top ally Venezuela introduced a cryptocurrency last year aiming to avoid U.S. sanctions and weather hyperinflation, although it never properly got off the ground.
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Wayne McCurrie, portfolio manager at FNB Wealth and Investments, said Magashule's comments brought to mind the money-printing in neighboring Zimbabwe that led to hyperinflation.
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This has led to hyperinflation, power cuts and shortages of food and medicine, all of which has driven millions of Venezuelans out of the country.
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Maduro, whose leftist government is under fire in Venezuela as the economy struggles with a fifth year of recession and hyperinflation, visited China earlier in September.
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Venezuela, a once-wealthy OPEC nation, is suffering hyperinflation and widespread food shortages as its economy collapses, leading hundreds of thousands to flee into neighboring countries.
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For Venezuelans coping with a lack of food and medicine, blackouts and hyperinflation, the gasoline shortages could also increase frustration with already-unpopular President Nicolas Maduro.
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Since 20093, Zimbabwe has used other currencies in lieu of its own, which it abandoned after hyperinflation of more than 5,000 percent made it essentially worthless.
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As its efforts to stem hyperinflation flounder, Venezuela's socialist government has taken to issuing new large-denominated notes to help its citizens cope with rising costs.
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Overnight, Venezuela slashed five zeros from prices as part of a broad economic plan to tame hyperinflation that economists say is likely to escalate the crisis.
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Colombia has borne the brunt of the exodus of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans escaping hyperinflation and shortages of basic goods under socialist President Nicolas Maduro.
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The country adopted the American dollar almost a decade ago after the central bank's profligate printing of Zimbabwe dollars led to hyperinflation that peaked at 500,363,000,000%.
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Fraga was president of Argentina's central bank in 1989 and 1990 and played a role in pulling the country out of the hyperinflation of that period.
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Hyperinflation began in October 2017: over the 12 months to November, prices have risen by 1,299,744%, says the finance committee of the opposition-controlled National Assembly.
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He defended the surprise manner of the announcement and promised that Zimbabwe would not fall into money-printing of the kind that caused hyperinflation in 2008.
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Among those issues is a dire nationwide food shortage and hyperinflation that the International Monetary Fund projects could top 1 million percent by year&aposs end.
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Critics said the currency measure was no panacea for Venezuela's economic mess and just a psychological ploy to make Venezuelans forget the extent of the hyperinflation.
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Zimbabwe, which now uses the U.S. dollar after abandoning its currency in 2009 after hyperinflation, plans to introduce a new currency in the next 12 months.
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Critics point to his interventionist policies and printing of money to finance a wide fiscal deficit as the causes of hyperinflation and shortages of basic goods.
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That has stirred memories of economic chaos a decade ago, when rampant money-printing fuelled hyperinflation and forced the country to abandon its currency in 2009.
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His approval ratings have sunk to around 4 percent, even lower than that of President Nicolas Maduro of neighboring Venezuela, hit by hyperinflation and food shortages.
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The government corruption and mismanagement that contributed to hyperinflation, soaring violent crime, widespread poverty and the unprecedented exodus of Venezuelans will get worse as conditions deteriorate.
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Venezuela Venezuela put out a new currency as it desperately tries to wrestle with hyperinflation, a situation that has helped fuel social unrest and political turmoil.
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Governments do not win elections during periods of hyperinflation — except when, as in Zimbabwe in 2008, the opposition makes the fatal mistake of boycotting the vote.
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Buried in debt and forced, in 1921, to pay reparations to the victorious Allies, Germany printed bank notes and ignited the most infamous bout of hyperinflation.
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In recent weeks, Russia has offered to send food and medicine to the Maduro government as the country deals with hyperinflation, widespread blackouts and skyrocketing poverty.
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Mugabe was repeatedly accused of unleashing death squads on supporters of the opposition, rigging presidential elections and overseeing a falling economy that sparked poverty and hyperinflation.
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"I immersed myself in studying the Great Depression period, the Weimar Republic period, " the latter of which saw one of the worst cases of hyperinflation ever.
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Venezuelans have increasingly taken to using dollars or euros for day-to-day transactions, as hyperinflation erodes the value of the crisis-torn country's bolivar currency.
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In an attempt to fight hyperinflation, Maduro announced Thursday plans to cut five zeros off the country's currency, rather than the three he had previously said.
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Around this time, Maduro was facing mounting calls to resign amid hyperinflation, shortages of food and medicine, and an exodus of citizens fleeing to neighboring countries.
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Maduro has called the aid a U.S.-orchestrated show and denies there is an economic crisis, despite a widespread lack of food and medicine and hyperinflation.
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In 16 rounds of hyperinflation, Capital Econmics studied going back to 1980, all but Israel in 1983 resulted in some change of political leadership before or during.
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The moves to tighten border security could threaten a key social safety valve for desperate Venezuelans as hyperinflation and a severe recession grip their oil-rich country.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelans said on Friday they lacked confidence in President Nicolas Maduro's decision to knock three digits off the country's ailing bolivar currency amid soaring hyperinflation.
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Its detractors, a group that includes some leading progressives including Paul Krugman, worry the idea could create hyperinflation by injecting so much cheap money into the economy.
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Nearly half of South Sudan's 11 million people will lack reliable access to affordable food by July, the government predicts, because of the fighting, drought and hyperinflation.
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The crisis-stricken country is struggling under hyperinflation and shortages of essential goods such as food and medicine due to the collapse of its socialist economic system.
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When France and Belgium occupied the Ruhr in 1923 after Germany failed to make payments, the German central bank, the Reichsbank, increased its money-printing, unleashing hyperinflation.
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Guaido says Maduro's re-election last year resulted from a sham vote and blames him for an economic collapse that has led to widespread shortages and hyperinflation.
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Discontent among the armed forces has grown as hyperinflation eats away at salaries and food shortages leave soldiers and rank-and-file troops struggling to get by.
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Many economists and central bankers would qualify December's price rise as "hyperinflation", usually defined as a rise in consumer prices of at least 220% over a month.
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Fortunately, of the known episodes of hyperinflation around the world, over half ended within a year, and only a tenth of those lasted more than six months.
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The government adopted the U.S. dollar in 20153 after a bout of hyperinflation rendered the Zimbabwean dollar worthless, wiping out savings in the now defunct national currency.
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He printed money to pay the army and the civil service, sparking hyperinflation so severe that, at one point, Z$1trn would not buy a boiled sweet.
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Many people living in countries suffering from hyperinflation or chronic inflation, such as Venezuela or Turkey, could also rely on USDC to convert some of their savings.
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Since August, more than 600,213 people have entered Colombia with such ID cards, driven, they say, by the accelerating pace of hyperinflation making food inaccessible at home.
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PRICE PRESSURES Many Zimbabweans fear a return to the hyperinflation era that prevailed during part of Mugabe's tenure if the RTGS dollar sinks much beyond that point.
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But uppermost in ordinary Zimbabweans' minds were fears it might trigger a return to the hyperinflation that plagued part of the tenure of former leader Robert Mugabe.
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Impoverished Venezuelans are fleeing food shortages, hyperinflation, and violent crime in their homeland, often taking days-long bus rides across South America because they cannot afford flights.
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While nowhere near the 500 billion percent hyperinflation of the crisis of 2008, the country is again grappling with soaring prices and shortages of fuel and medicines.
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The two friends, both aged 42, remember the 1990s, when Ms Fujimori's father, Alberto Fujimori, ruling as an autocrat, vanquished the Shining Path terrorist group and hyperinflation.
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Mnangagwa has been trumpeting a "Zimbabwe is open for business" mantra in an attempt to resurrect the nation's economy, which has been crippled by hyperinflation and sanctions.
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The winner will inherit a country in the middle of a deep economic and social crisis, with millions suffering food and medicine shortages, hyperinflation and growing insecurity.
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The human suffering is hitting society at every level—hyperinflation, violent crime, widespread deprivation, deepening poverty, and stifling import quotas that exacerbate the scarcity of critical goods.
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With Venezuela's oil output collapsing amid hyperinflation and a fifth year of economic contraction, Maduro flew to Moscow on Monday to meet with his counterpart, Vladimir Putin.
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Billions of dollars of domestic debt issued to pay for a bloated civil service triggered a collapse in the value of Zimbabwe's de facto currency and hyperinflation.
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However, some, like Venezuela and Zimbabwe have, due in large part because they didn't control the issuance of their currencies and ended up with hyperinflation, Bullard said.
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But support for Maduro's rule is weaker among the military's rank and file, whose households are suffering from widespread food shortages and hyperinflation like their civilian counterparts.
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Mnangagwa has been touting a "Zimbabwe is open for business" mantra in an effort to reboot the country's economy, which has famously struggled with corruption and hyperinflation.
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In 2008 at the height of hyperinflation, Zimbabwe also suspended the transfer of dual-listed shares but this did not stem the crash of the local currency.
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Hyperinflation has reduced the island's entire budget to the equivalent of $400 a month, or just 3 cents per estimated resident, according to the mayor, Hector Nava.
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The nation is on the verge of, and by some measures already in, an extraordinary period of hyperinflation, with the inflation rate above 2200 percent through October.
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" Nearly a century ago, Vladimir Lenin was quoted in The New York Times saying that hyperinflation was "the simplest way to exterminate the very spirit of capitalism.
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The International Monetary Fund predicts that Venezuela's inflation rate will reach 10 million percent in 2019, becoming one of the worst cases of hyperinflation in modern history.
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Hyperinflation has roiled the country's economy, and food and medicine shortages have become increasingly common — none of which was helped by the ratcheting up of U.S. sanctions.
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Venezuela's socialist president Nicolás Maduro has presided over an economic crisis that has seen hyperinflation hit 10,000,000%, food and medicine shortages, and a continuing exodus of people.
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Having lived through devastating world wars and hyperinflation, economically conservative Germans rely heavily on cash and even in their banking prefer simple saving products, particularly cash deposits.
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Kellogg announced its retreat earlier on Tuesday, making it the latest multinational to exit the oil-rich country, which is heaving under hyperinflation and strict price controls.
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The International Monetary Fund anticipates that Venezuela's inflation rate will reach 10 million percent in 2019, becoming one of the worst cases of hyperinflation in modern history.
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And we're a long way from the kind of situation in which America would become so dependent on the printing press that we're looking at potential hyperinflation.
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Venezuela is also struggling with hyperinflation, and the Maduro administration ordered more than 200 supermarkets to cut prices back to last month's levels, Reuters reported on Saturday.
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Inflation has been in the triple digits at various stages during the conflict, with hyperinflation persisting for several years due in part to the depreciating pound currency.
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In 2008, Zimbabweans slept at the passport office to be first in line to apply as an economic crisis and hyperinflation wrecked the country's currency under Mugabe.
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The World Factbook claims that in order to have some semblance of an economy, North Korea futzes with its currency supply in order to stave off hyperinflation.
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In the past Venezuela's combination of hyperinflation, economic collapse and an unpopular and now illegitimate government would have prompted a pronunciamiento (bloodless coup), with or without American help.
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As a result, millions of people have been driven out of the country amid hyperinflation, power cuts and severe shortages of basic items — such as food and medicine.
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Venezuela's 21992 months of hyperinflation is among the worst in recent history, and that could be its undoing, according to Edward Glossop, Latin American economist at Capital Economics.
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The contest came as Venezuela remains mired in an economic crisis that has been marked by hyperinflation, cratering oil production, devastating food and medicine shortages and mass migration.
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The Latin American country has been suffering an economic and societal collapse, brought on by skyrocketing hyperinflation, shortages of food and medicines, as well as looting and violence.
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"Once we're no longer in a liquidity trap, running large deficits without access to bond markets is a recipe for very high inflation, perhaps even hyperinflation," Krugman writes.
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The southern African nation is facing a biting shortage of cash, its worst since 2009 when it dumped its hyperinflation-wrecked currency in favour of the U.S. dollar.
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Trump&aposs bellicose talk provided the unpopular leader with an immediate if short-lived boost as he was trying to escape blame for widespread food shortages and hyperinflation.
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Although Mr Fujimori was an authoritarian who dissolved congress and tolerated rampant corruption, many Peruvians credit him with defeating Shining Path, a vicious guerrilla group, and ending hyperinflation.
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When inflation hit 230,000,000 percent in 2009 , the country's reserve bank -- infamous for its inability to contain sky-high hyperinflation -- declared the U.S. dollar as its official currency.
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These failures are part of a broader collapse of Venezuela's health system, caused by the socialist regime's ruinous policies, which have led to shortages, economic depression and hyperinflation.
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The military deployment took place in the midst of Venezuela's massive economic crisis triggered by the fall of oil prices and characterized by a shrinking economy and hyperinflation.
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Steve Hanke, an economist at Johns Hopkins University, has (with colleagues) used this definition to compile a list of 22018 recorded cases of hyperinflation from 0003 to 2000.
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Hyperinflation and widespread shortages of food and medicine are battering the country, and the International Monetary Fund projects inflation could top 2440 million percent by year&aposs end.
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The annual contraction, which matched market expectations in a Reuters poll, was also Brazil's largest since 22008, when the country was struggling with hyperinflation and a debt default.
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Venezuela's hyperinflation, one of the first of the digital era, is producing surprise winners in a tough business climate: small technology companies based in the crisis-stricken country.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads CARACAS — The forced displacement of Venezuelans due to violence and hyperinflation continues every day, occupying headlines in the West and discussions internationally.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Striding a small stage in a poor hillside neighborhood of Venezuela's capital, Caracas, presidential aspirant Henri Falcon fulminates against hunger, malnutrition and hyperinflation under socialist rule.
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Apollo Endosurgery said that as of March 31, the global rate of spontaneous hyperinflation of its devices after operations was 0.07%, and the gastric perforation rate was 0.01%.
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Maduro's government is struggling under hyperinflation now approaching 2 million percent annually, and a broad economic collapse has fueled an exodus of some three million people since 2015.
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The new nation inevitably fell victim to decades of post-colonial problems, culminating in the hyperinflation of 2008, which peaked at a monthly rate of 79.6 billion percent.
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But government overspending on social programs and American-orchestrated economic strangulation led to food scarcity and hyperinflation, leaving Chile bitterly divided between left-wing and right-wing camps.
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It has also allowed some of the most talked-about uses of the technology, helping people escape hyperinflation in Venezuela or transfer money across borders with lower fees.
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That would put Liu on a similar standing with former economic czar Zhu Rongji, known for his tough handling of hyperinflation and the economic chaos in the 1990s.
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The oil-rich country is in a sixth year of recession, marked by hyperinflation and shortages of basic goods that have prompted more than three million to emigrate.
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The bank also reported one-off charges from the increase of its stake in Mozambique's Banco Unico, the revaluation of some private equity investments and hyperinflation in Zimbabwe.
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Venezuela's economy has collapsed over the past five years, with prices rocketing daily due to hyperinflation, and many people struggle to afford basic necessities like food and medicine.
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It is hard to think about the cultural sector when the devastating situation — characterized by violence, hyperinflation, censorship, and massive migration — deprives people, including artists, of basic needs.
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The economy has nosedived, there is hyperinflation, and the government is unable to pay civil servants and soldiers because oil production has collapsed and official corruption is rampant.
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That policy was introduced in 2009 and helped end an era of hyperinflation, which had rendered the Zimbabwe dollar less valuable than the paper it was printed on.
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That would put Liu on a similar standing with former economic tsar Zhu Rongji, known for his tough handling of hyperinflation and the economic chaos in the 1990s.
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Oil rich Venezuela's economy has sunk into crisis under Maduro forcing tens of thousands of Venezuelans into neighboring countries amid hyperinflation, food and medicine shortages, and power cuts.
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A major currency overhaul in Venezuela is due to come into effect Monday, with critics of the move fearful it will exacerbate hyperinflation in the crisis-stricken country.
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Maduro replaced Hugo Chavez after his death in 2013 and won a new six-year term in 2018 despite hyperinflation, chronic food shortages and a severe economic contraction.
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Venezuela's information minister, Jorge Rodriguez, said on Friday that a new package of economic measures meant to address hyperinflation would win over Venezuelans who had left the country.
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The incident failed to generate any wave of spontaneous support from traditional government backers, many of whom are reeling from hyperinflation, frequent water and power cuts, and food shortages.
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As a result, millions of people have been driven out of the country amid skyrocketing hyperinflation, power cuts and severe shortages of basic items — such as food and medicine.
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"If nothing is done, we run the risk of suffering from the hyperinflation that is hitting other countries, and of reliving the nightmare of the 1990s," Matata told lawmakers.
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Central bank "capture" by national leaders has been blamed for a variety of economic ills, from hyperinflation to runaway debt used to finance projects in hopes of winning reelection.
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Adding Venezuela to the list could limit U.S. economic assistance and impose financial restrictions on a country already suffering from hyperinflation, mass migration and shortages of food and medicine.
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The UCR took a bad hit in the 1989 elections when it was blamed for a hyperinflation crisis, but its core supporters stuck with it, and the party survived.
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Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro, who presides over an economy that is suffering from hyperinflation and shortages of food, would have a hard time flying commercial even if he wanted to.
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Even as hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans have fled to Colombia over the past three years to escape Venezuela's shortages and hyperinflation, the ELN fighters have found refuge there.
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Countries like Germany, with its experience of hyperinflation, have maintained a historical connection to gold as a tangible asset that can protect wealth against economic downturns and currency fluctuations.
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Zimbabweans are angry as year-on-year inflation of around 100% has eaten the value of their wages and savings, recalling the horrors of the hyperinflation era in 13.
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In a paper published in 1982 he pointed out that historical episodes of hyperinflation did not end slowly, as central banks subjected economies to grinding recessions, but almost overnight.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro ordered a re-denomination of the ailing bolivar currency on Thursday, by knocking three zeroes off amid hyperinflation and a crippling economic crisis.
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The government is running a budget surplus for the first time in years and has stopped runaway money-printing, which led to hyperinflation of 500 billion percent in 2008.
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The new rules have stoked inflation, which soared to a new 10-year high of 175.66% in June, raising fears of the return of hyperinflation of a decade ago.
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That has stirred memories among an increasingly impoverished population of economic chaos a decade ago, when rampant money-printing fueled hyperinflation and forced the country to abandon its currency.
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The downturn, which Goldman Sachs likens to a depression, has even exceeded the 3003 percent decline during the so-called lost decade of the 1980s, when Brazil fought hyperinflation.
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In a country that has suffered from hyperinflation and a deep recession in the past, this was an unforgivable sin — and the country exploded in nationwide protests in 2013.
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During the 1970s, the Arab oil embargo and the Iranian revolution brought the world to its knees economically, with two massive oil shocks that helped ignite hyperinflation and recession.
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Zimbabwe abandoned its own currency in 2009 after it was wrecked by hyperinflation, and adopted the greenback and other hard currencies such as sterling and the South African rand.
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According to the National Assembly's calculations, oil-rich Venezuela at the end of last year entered hyperinflation, for which the benchmark is usually a 50 percent monthly inflation figure.
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Economists generally say that a country is in hyperinflation when the monthly rate tops 50 percent for three months or annual rates remain above three digits for three years.
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Zimbabweans are angry as a year-on-year price jump of around 100% has eaten the value of their wages and savings, recalling the horrors of hyperinflation in 2008.
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Venezuela's regime-driven economic collapse has hollowed out public services and accelerated hyperinflation, worsening its humanitarian crisis and fueling one of the largest mass migrations in South American history.
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During his six devastating years in government, Mr. Maduro has caused the deepest economic contraction in recorded Latin American history and the world's only hyperinflation in the last decade.
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Maduro has blamed U.S. President Donald Trump for the deep recession and hyperinflation that has caused food shortages in Venezuela and sent an exodus of migrants into neighboring countries.
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Hyperinflation is a mercurial phenomenon, a rupture that occurs when a government persistently spends (or prints) money that it doesn't have, and the public loses confidence in the process.
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The exodus - driven by violence, hyperinflation and shortages of food and medicines - amounts to one in 12 of the population, placing strain on neighboring countries, already struggling with poverty.
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Showing pictures of Zimbabweans carrying bundles of cash during its hyperinflation crisis, the paper said Zimbabwe's chaos could in large part be traced to Mugabe's extreme leftist, populist policies.
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An online marketplace known as LocalBitcoins has connected Venezuelans looking to buy Bitcoin and get their money out of the bolívar, which has steadily lost value because of hyperinflation.
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While the mention of Venezuela — which is suffering widespread starvation and hyperinflation — won her few friends, the argument that high taxes take a toll on enterprise was another matter.
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Hyperinflation seemed an exotic disease that had mostly disappeared, but it seems that governments at times go out of their way to make the lives of their people worse.
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The modern German economy is humming, whereas in 1929, the year Mr. Kutscher's first novel is set, the stock market crash had shaken a nation already traumatized by hyperinflation.
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A friend there tells me dollars are informally permitted to pay for goods, removing one grievance behind the protests and reducing the impact of hyperinflation on the local bolivar.
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CARACAS, March 22 (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro ordered a "redenomination" of the ailing bolivar currency on Thursday, knocking off three zeros amid hyperinflation and a crippling economic crisis.
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The country is gripped by a shortage of U.S. dollars, a currency it adopted in 2009 after its own currency was wrecked by hyperinflation that reached 500 billion percent.
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Hyperinflation and severe recession in oil-rich Venezuela are prompting Venezuelans to flee over the border to Colombia, now about 2,000 a day, Colombian Finance Minister Mauricio Cardenas said.
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This included forcing people to vote for the ruling party by threatening to withhold food boxes from people living in a country facing food shortages and suffering from hyperinflation.
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Hyperinflation has put the most basic items out of reach for most of Venezuela's people, the majority of whom are living below the poverty line, according to recent studies.
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Opposition leaders in Venezuela, which is suffering from malnutrition and hyperinflation, at the time accused Goldman of giving President Nicolas Maduro a financial lifeline through the $2.8 billion deal.
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Zimbabwe adopted the US dollar as its official currency after the spendthrift regime of President Robert Mugabe printed so many of its own notes that it caused hyperinflation in 2008.
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As hyperinflation worsens, Venezuelans look for any way to earn and save livable amounts of money that will retain some semblance of its value from one day to the next.
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President Nicolas Maduro, grappling with hyperinflation and an economy in freefall, has long argued that U.S. sanctions are part of an "economic war" by Washington to topple his leftist government.
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The measures especially spooked shopkeepers already struggling to stay afloat due to hyperinflation, government-set prices for goods ranging from flour to diapers, and strict currency controls that crimp imports.
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Sensitivity among Germans to spiraling inflation is a long-standing element of the psyche partly due to memories of the uncontrollable and enormously pernicious hyperinflation experienced in the early 1920s.
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Fear that they might be used again in future could weaken confidence in the currency as a store of value—paving the way for some broader institutional failure, like hyperinflation.
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Similarly I don't think it's controversial to note that prophecies of the hyperinflation and collapse of national currencies, the downfall of central banks and fractional reserve banking in general, etc.
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There have been huge street protests in Venezuela in the past months as the humanitarian and political crises have worsened, including hyperinflation, power blackouts and shortages to food and medicine.
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Government critics say Maduro frequently makes baseless accusations against ideologically opposed foreign nations in a bid to shift blame over Venezuela's salary-destroying hyperinflation, major food shortages, and rampant crime.
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The wounds in Venezuela, likely to be the worst performer with an 11.9% loss, are self-inflicted, as gross mismanagement has led to hyperinflation and a looming sovereign-debt default.
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Today's accelerating drug trade is a symptom of the urgent need for cash inside Venezuela's crumbling hyperinflation economy, and rampant corruption among the Maduro government's senior officials, multiple officials said.
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Maduro, a 55-year-old former bus driver and union leader, is running despite his widespread unpopularity and a devastating economic crisis that has spawned malnutrition, disease, hyperinflation and emigration.
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The very fact of a new government will help stop hyperinflation (see article), but Venezuela will also need real money from abroad—international lenders, including the IMF, should be generous.
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Electricity outages are frequent in Venezuela, where the economy is collapsing under hyperinflation, with chronic shortages of food and medicine and a mass emigration of more than 3 million citizens.
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"Right-wing media highlighted the risks of hyperinflation and bankruptcy after Obama's election and during his first months in office; Republicans overweighted the risk of collapse," according to the study.
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On the contrary: Germans came to distinguish virtuous saving, based on creative work, in contrast to the "money-grubbing" of Jewish capital, believed to play a role in the hyperinflation.
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Unemployment is now running at nearly 90 percent and chronic shortages of hard currency have triggered hyperinflation, with the prices of imports rising as much as 50 percent a month.
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It's just one more headache for the South American country, where voters -- suffering from food and medicine shortages as well as hyperinflation -- will vote on a new president Sunday. 5003.
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The southern African nation adopted the U.S. dollar and South African rand eight years ago to bring in financial discipline and currency stability after hyperinflation rendered its own currency worthless.
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When the country's political and economic crisis of a decade ago led to hyperinflation, people spent their Zimbabwean dollars as fast as they could before the money lost its value.
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That made the bolivar's value plunge, which in turn caused investors to drop their holdings of it, causing it to fall further, and that created a vicious cycle of hyperinflation.
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Water cuts are the latest addition to a long list of woes for Venezuelans hurting from a fifth year of an economic crisis that has sparked malnutrition, hyperinflation and emigration.
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The new measures spooked shopkeepers already struggling to stay afloat due to hyperinflation, government-set prices for goods ranging from flour to diapers, and strict currency controls that crimp imports.
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Kuczynski said his primary concern with Venezuela was the regional fallout as thousands of Venezuelans flee the country's grinding poverty and hyperinflation every day and seek refuge in neighboring countries.
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The backing might counteract the sort of hyperinflation that the real Venezuelan currency, the bolívar, has experienced in recent years because of the government's unbridled expansion of the money supply.
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The truth is that failed government policy has ruined the economy, resulting in hyperinflation and severe shortages, and millions of Venezuelans cannot afford to buy food on the open market.
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He helped build defense and weapons stocks and industry, salvaging the economy during the hyperinflation of the 1980s, championing Israel's high-tech industry and then turning his efforts to peace.
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One common excuse for the electorate's embrace of Nazism was economic hardship; the hyperinflation that convulsed Germany after World War I had turned into a deflationary spiral with the Depression.
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Amid hyperinflation and tens of billions in unsustainable debt, "the country is having serious problems extracting oil, so it will be difficult that these IOU retains much value," Roca said.
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But using sanctions to send Iran into a hyperinflationary spiral may do little more to loosen the regime's grip than Venezuela's hyperinflation has done to bring down Nicolas Maduro's dictatorship.
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The area has been plagued by frequent theft of equipment and near-daily power cuts as Venezuela remains mired in deep recession, hyperinflation and chronic shortages of food and medicine.
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According to statistics published recently by the National Assembly, inflation in November was nearly 57 percent — above the 50 percent mark that is commonly regarded as the threshold of hyperinflation.
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But once-prosperous Venezuela is reeling from its worst economic crisis in history, with deep-seated hunger, shortages and hyperinflation that Mr. Maduro's opponents have blamed on corruption and mismanagement.
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Guaido says Maduro's re-election last year resulted from a sham vote, and he blames Maduro for an economic collapse that has led to widespread shortages and hyperinflation in Venezuela.
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Residents increasingly cross into the neighboring country to work and buy basic goods that are unavailable in Venezuela, which has suffered years of hyperinflation and shortages of food and medicine.
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The ceremony contrasted with the harsh realities that face the former bus driver turned socialist leader, including hyperinflation, severe food and medicine shortages and an exodus of millions of citizens.
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Zimbabweans are turning to bitcoin — as well as cars, real estate and stocks — as an alternative way to secure their money as fears that hyperinflation could wipe out people's savings.
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T=16. Asuncion, Paraguay — With a score of 51, Paraguay's capital is the second cheapest place in South America to live, with only the chaotic, hyperinflation-stricken Caracas costing less.
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Tsvangirai was prime minister in an uneasy 2009-2013 coalition government that oversaw an economic recovery after a decade of decline and hyperinflation that had left salaries and pensions worthless.
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The new measures have worried shopkeepers already struggling to stay afloat due to hyperinflation, government-set prices for goods ranging from flour to diapers, and strict currency controls that crimp imports.
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Inflation in Venezuela is nothing new, but in 2018, hyperinflation (when prices rise by 13 percent or more per month and currency begins to become worthless) has escalated to staggering proportions.
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Inflation could reach one million percent by year's end, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which compares hyperinflation in Venezuela to that of the Weimar Republic in Germany following WWI.
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With bank notes made useless by hyperinflation, and no easy access to the debit card terminals widely used to conduct transactions in urban areas, residents of Patanemo rely mainly on barter.
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While Venezuela has seen hyperinflation for just over a year, it has been in a much longer economic crisis that was exasperated by the sharp drop in oil prices in 2014.
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Inflation has climbed to a decade high 97.86%, eroding salaries and savings and causing Zimbabweans to fear a return to the hyperinflation of 2008 when the rate reached 500 billion percent.
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After raging hyperinflation, Zimbabwe abandoned its own currency in 2009 in favor of the U.S. dollar, but a widening trade deficit and lack of foreign investment have led to currency shortages.
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HEPS were hurt by new accounting standards, interest on fines, foreign exchange moves, hyperinflation and the depreciation of the Iranian real, which resulted in lower earnings from MTN Irancell, MTN said.
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While blackouts have long been common in Venezuela, their increasing frequency and severity is adding to the desperation of Venezuelans, already living through hyperinflation and six straight years of economic contraction.
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Just as you have seen a 41 percent drop in the lira in the last year in Turkey, we&aposre seeing a similar impact and we&aposre seeing hyperinflation in Iran.
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The favorable conditions from Beijing helped President Nicolas Maduro's socialist government weather a collapse in Venezuela's economy, which slid into hyperinflation and a painful recession following a downturn in oil prices.
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Economists including Hanke have used another gauge of value from the old hyperinflation days - the Old Mutual Implied Rate - to try to measure the extent and pace of Zimbabwe's financial collapse.
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When President Robert Mugabe scrapped the Zimbabwe dollar in 2009, most of his people thought this meant the end of runaway money-printing and hyperinflation that had rendered the currency worthless.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's consumer prices rose 1.3 million percent in the year ending in November, the opposition-controlled National Assembly said on Monday, as hyperinflation and recession grip the OPEC member.
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More than three million people are believed to have fled Venezuela in recent years amid a deep economic crisis marked by widespread shortages of food and medicine as well as hyperinflation.
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While theft drives mobile money adoption in Somalia, a BBC report titled The surprising place where cash is going extinct found a different driver of cashless payments in neighboring Somaliland: hyperinflation.
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Its advocates argue that the tactic would give the global economy a much-needed boost; its detractors see it as a further step on the path towards fiscal irresponsibility and hyperinflation.
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Annual inflation surged to 63% in June, eroding earnings and stirring memories of economic chaos under former president Robert Mugabe, when hyperinflation forced the country to abandon its currency in 26.
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Maduro has presided over an economic and political crisis since succeeding Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, with much of the country crippled by hyperinflation, soaring unemployment and a mass exodus of refugees.
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Since 2014, Venezuelans have regularly taken to the streets to protest the violence (among other things that plague the country, like hyperinflation and corruption)—protests that sometimes also end in violence.
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According to statistics published last week by the National Assembly, inflation in November was nearly 57 percent — above the 50 percent mark that is commonly regarded as the threshold of hyperinflation.
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Mugabe left behind an economy wrecked by hyperinflation, dollarisation and deeply entrenched corruption, and a raging political rivalry between the country's two largest political parties, ZANU-PF and the opposition MDC.
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A hike in U.S. sanctions this year, aimed at intensifying pressure on Maduro, has hurt an economy already experiencing hyperinflation that has fueled malnutrition and disease while prompting millions to flee.
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Mr. López Obrador's opponents argue that his policies would drive Mexico back to the disastrous 213s, when populist presidents borrowed, spent and stole billions, plunging the country into debt and hyperinflation.
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Bertucci said the country's economic crisis, which includes hyperinflation and chronic food and medicine shortages, can be solved "very quickly" and that he is willing to ask other countries for help.
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The fighting that followed split the country along ethnic lines, spurred hyperinflation and plunged parts of the nation into famine, creating Africa's biggest refugee crisis since the Rwandan genocide in 1994.
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In the early 2000s, Mugabe pushed thousands of white farmers off their land to the result of food shortages, hyperinflation and violence — as well as contributing to the country's international ostracization.
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The rolling power blackouts in the state of Zulia pile more misery on Venezuelans living under a fifth year of an economic crisis that has sparked malnutrition, hyperinflation and mass emigration.
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In Venezuela, for example, hyperinflation and harsh currency controls from the government has made Bitcoin a more stable investment and a way to get money in and out of the country.
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Venezuela is suffering from hyperinflation, produce shortages and a mass migration of citizens to neighboring Latin American countries - a situation likely to be worsened in the short term by the new sanctions.
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In the worst-hit western cities, business has all but ground to a halt at a time when the OPEC nation of 30 million is already suffering hyperinflation and a profound recession.
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The high-stakes moves allows him to blame a U.S.-led "capitalist conspiracy" for hyperinflation and shortages while potentially freeing hard currency to import food and medicines ahead of next year's vote.
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Venezuelans have increasingly taken to informal gold mining as the country's socialist economy unravels and hyperinflation leaves millions of people struggling to afford basic food items in the once-booming OPEC nation.
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The unpopular president, who is seeking a second term in office despite an economic and social explosion in the OPEC country, blamed "criminal mafias" for hyperinflation and recession at a campaign rally.
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Maduro had decreed a national holiday for the first day of a plan that will slash five zeros from prices in a bid to tame hyperinflation, as part of his economic package.
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The exodus, driven by violence, hyperinflation and major shortages of food and medicine, led to a U.N. emergency appeal of $9 million announced last week for health and nutrition projects inside Venezuela.
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Venezuelans have increasingly taken to informal gold mining as the country's socialist economy unravels and hyperinflation leaves millions of people struggling to afford basic food items in the once-booming OPEC nation.
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WHITE HOUSE CRITICS Central bank "capture" by national leaders has been blamed for a variety of economic ills, from hyperinflation to runaway debt used to finance projects in hopes of winning reelection.
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CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuela&aposs President Nicolas Maduro is seeking a new six-year mandate — and despite crippling hyperinflation and widespread shortages of food and medicine, he is widely expected to win it.
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Leftist President Nicolas Maduro is hoping to capitalize on the success of cryptocurrencies by creating one for Venezuela as the bolivar plunges to all-time lows and the country struggles with hyperinflation.
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This is the first case of a government tying its economic fortunes so closely to that of any digital currency, and suggests a possible exit path for a country ravaged by hyperinflation.
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President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who replaced longtime leader Mugabe after an army coup in November 2017, is trying to repair an economy ruined by hyperinflation and a long succession of failed economic interventions.
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Government foes said socialist Maduro was using the incident to stifle dissent and cement his power in the oil-rich nation suffering from food shortages, salary-destroying hyperinflation and frequent power cuts.
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The southern African nation started using the U.S. dollar in 2009 after ditching its own currency when hyperinflation soared to more than 500 billion percent at the height of an economic recession.
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The fighting has prevented many farmers from harvesting their crops, and hyperinflation, which reached more than 800 percent last year, has put the price of imported food beyond the reach of many.
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The fees of just a few euros each month were too much for many Germans, who are highly price-sensitive after losing their savings twice to hyperinflation over the past 100 years.
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The African drought's impact is particularly serious for Zimbabwe, where the economy has struggled for five years to recover from a catastrophic recession marked by billion percent hyperinflation and widespread food shortages.
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Venezuela is home to the world's largest crude reserves, but production is hovering near its lowest levels in 70 years due to underinvestment, hyperinflation, and mismanagement under military control of the company.
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The financial embargo has prevented any measures that the government might use to get rid of hyperinflation or bring about an economic recovery, while knocking out billions of dollars of oil production.
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Maduro frequently blames the opposition, United States and other foreign powers for the country's economic and social crisis in which millions are suffering shortages of basic products, hyperinflation and a crumbling infrastructure.
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Annual inflation hit 175.66%, up from 97.85% in May, statistics agency ZIMSTATS said - the highest rate since runaway money-printing and associated hyperinflation forced the country to abandon its currency in 2009.
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According to the opposition-led National Assembly, November's rise in prices topped academics' traditional benchmark for hyperinflation of more than 50 percent a month - and could end the year at 2,000 percent.
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Ncube, who predicted the economy would contract this year before rebounding in 2020, said he was "not happy" with current inflation levels but that fears of a return to hyperinflation were unfounded.
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Thus: Glenn Beck in his heyday juiced up his viewers by telling them that Obama was going to unleash hyperinflation any day now; he personally cashed in by hawking overpriced gold coins.
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Japan runs a deficit of 240% of GDP, and yet has no inflationIn fact, MMT advocates observe, new money creation is a very common event and hyperinflation is a relatively rare event.
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"Of course if you keep spending and you can't produce goods to meet that spending you'll get inflation, and if you keep spending on top of that you'll get hyperinflation," he says.
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Since September, Zimbabwean junior doctors have been engaged in a battle with the government over conditions of service and poor pay, which they say has been eroded by hyperinflation in the country.
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Only a smattering of aid got through, and it did little if anything to loosen Mr. Maduro's control in Venezuela, a once prosperous nation that is now reeling from hyperinflation and poverty.
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Nor is there any hint of an end to the hyperinflation that led the workers' advocacy group CENDAS to forecast that the cost of basic supplies will increase by 1,000 percent next month.
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The export troubles are rising as the cash-strapped nation faces claims on its assets from creditors, and an outflow of skilled workers and energy service companies due to hyperinflation and unpaid bills.
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Add in MOOC certificates, LinkedIn Learning courses, competency-based education, General Assembly and the like, and the idea of creating new currencies of knowledge starts to look more like a recipe for hyperinflation.
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Production by the OPEC nation's oil industry is at a 60-year low, leaving President Nicolas Maduro's government strapped for cash as it grapples with hyperinflation and a fifth year of economic contraction.
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Freddy Bernal, who runs a government programme that distributes subsidised food, challenged the regime's argument that its failings—including hyperinflation—are the result of an "economic war" waged by subversives and foreign powers.
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After the profligate printing of money prompted a bout of hyperinflation in 2008-09, a government of national unity (with a finance minister from the opposition) cut spending and abolished the Zimbabwe dollar.
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Falcon accused the government of buying votes and dirty tricks to boost turnout among poor voters most hurt by widespread food shortages and hyperinflation in what was once Latin America&aposs wealthiest nation.
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But as Venezuela quickly goes broke and hyperinflation pulverizes the paychecks of civilians and soldiers alike, discontent is penetrating the barracks, raising doubts whether the troops will remain trustworthy as their stomachs growl.
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And I think that there is a risk that next year we could find ourselves in an inflation environment — it's not hyperinflation — and the Fed finds itself a little bit behind the curve.
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The country hasn't had its own currency since 2009, when hyperinflation destroyed its dollar, unemployment runs at about 90 percent, and the country has an estimated $11 billion in debt it can't repay.
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Venezuela has suffered hyperinflation following the 2014 collapse of oil prices, leaving the government, which sits on the world's largest oil reserve, unable to subsidize imports and struggling to pay its foreign debt.
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With banks running out of money, he has introduced an unpopular "bond note" currency that is meant to ease the liquidity crunch but which many Zimbabweans fear will cause a return to hyperinflation.
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Zimbabwe, which dumped its hyperinflation-hit currency for the U.S. dollar in 2009, is now running short of dollars as well as quasi-currency "bond note" introduced last year to ease cash shortages.
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Chevron said on Tuesday two of its executives were arrested in Venezuela, a rare move likely to spook foreign energy firms still operating in the OPEC nation stricken by hyperinflation, shortages and crime.
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Maduro's announcement will have no immediate impact on the lives of ordinary Venezuelans who are struggling with crippling hyperinflation, food shortages, a lack of medicine, rampant crime, and the collapse of public services.
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The PSDB, created by breakaway leftist dissidents from Temer's PMDB after the end of Brazil's 21-year dictatorship, was credited with defeating years-long hyperinflation and recession during its rule between 1995-2002.
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Hyperinflation has put basic food and medicine beyond the reach of most citizens in Venezuela and the United Nations estimates that roughly a quarter of the country's 30 million people need humanitarian assistance.
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It kind of feels like those stories I heard years ago about hyperinflation in Zimbabwe, where people would cart around wheelbarrows of cash that wouldn't be worth the paper they were printed on.
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With heavy use of state resources and a compliant electoral council, he is expected to win a six-year term despite salary-destroying hyperinflation, a fifth straight year of recession, and rampant crime.
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But hyperinflation and a six-year recession under President Nicolas Maduro have driven thousands back, part of a wave of some 1.7 million people who have fled Venezuela for Colombia in recent years.
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A study in the early 2010s showed that Germans were more worried about inflation than about developing a life-threatening disease such as cancer; hyperinflation in the country ended almost 100 years ago.
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"If you run a budget deficit of 10% to 15% of GDP while printing money financing, we end up like Zimbabwe, like Argentina, like Venezuela, with high inflation and eventually hyperinflation," he said.
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Though Venezuela is one of the world&aposs most oil-rich countries, the widespread sanctions have caused economic and humanitarian crises throughout the country as citizens struggle to afford basic goods amid hyperinflation.
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Zimbabweans are experiencing severe economic hardship that has evoked memories of the hyperinflation horrors during late President Robert Mugabe's rule, when citizens lost pensions and savings and businesses were forced to shut down.
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For millions, reform—including the "shock therapy" pushed by Western advisers and politicians—meant a collapse in basic services, hyperinflation, corruption, kleptocratic privatization, and an economic downturn as severe as the Great Depression.
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For approximately a decade beginning in the late 1990s, a particularly murky period in Zimbabwe's history during which the country suffered from hyperinflation, riots and strikes, its relationship with North Korea was bolstered.
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Venezuela, which is mired in a deep political and economic crisis with food shortages and hyperinflation, was set to take the rotating presidency of Mercosur this month, despite resistance from Brazil and Argentina.
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And even the revised target has been flattered by temporary factors: a change in the way Unilever accounts for hyperinflation added 30 basis points to sales growth in the first half, for example.
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"Venezuela has been known for misappropriation of assets in the past and the central bank has just created hyperinflation so I imagine there'll be trust and transparency issues," he said in an email.
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Consumer prices have skyrocketed, and the International Monetary Fund expects the inflation rate to reach 10 million percent in 2019, which would be one of the worst cases of hyperinflation in modern history.
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Soaring inflation, shortages of foreign exchange, fuel and electricity have brought back memories of the hyperinflation of a decade ago, amid criticism that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has failed to turn around the economy.
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Looking forward, innovation in the crypto space in Venezuela will likely only accelerate as hyperinflation remains on track to surpass 10 million percent by the end of the year, according to the IMF.
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Additionally, if the finance ministry act too late then it could quickly become such an impossible task, that either Germany exits the euro or the euro exits Germany, Gambles warned.. "(In this situation) Germany prints like crazy and before you know it, the German fears of hyperinflation are revisited – Germany is the major global economy that faces the risk of a currency and debt event big enough to cause hyperinflation which may be the most ironic aspect of the whole affair," he added.
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Tech-savvy citizens began adopting Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies around 2013 or 43, and in the past few years, crypto use has evolved to serve a number of different purposes as hyperinflation has soared.
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"It's difficult for countries to withstand hyperinflation for more than one or two years at the most," said Glossop, in an interview, noting its inflation rate has been put at over 21989 million percent.
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Maduro's latest stopgap measure against hyperinflation is simply to lop off three zeros and issue new bank notes, changing the currency's name from the Bolivar Fuerte (Strong Bolivar) to the Bolivar Soberano (Sovereign Bolivar).
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He took the once-rich nation to economic ruin, presiding over the forced takeover of white-owned farms at the end of the century, which devastated agricultural foreign exchange earnings and led to hyperinflation.
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"Ending any hyperinflation requires a monetary program, Venezuela will not escape it through rhetoric," said Rodrigo Cabeza, who during his term as minister led an effort to remove three zeros from the country's currency.
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He has admitted for the first time that hyperinflation is caused by the unbridled creation of money to finance the budget deficit, which will exceed 30% of GDP this year, according to the IMF.
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If Maduro wins he will still face a governability crisis as many foreign nations refuse to recognize the result and his government struggles to put a halt to collapsing oil production and spiraling hyperinflation.
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Despite the hyperinflation in 222-19183 and allowing for changes in the map of Europe, Germany produced 21918% more iron and 21918% more steel in 19136 than it had in 1913, the previous record.
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Zimbabwe's currency collapsed in 2009 following hyperinflation, during which the 100 trillion Zimbabwean dollar note was widely reported to be so worthless that it was unable to cover the cost of a bus ticket.
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After losing their savings to hyperinflation in 2008, worried citizens are stocking in basic goods while others buy bricks and shares on the stock market to preserve the value of money in their banks.
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Under Maduro's government, the oil-rich nation has defaulted on most of its $63 billion of debt as it has spiraled into its worst-ever economic crisis, with rampant hyperinflation and a food shortage.
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A balanced budget — one where revenues match or outweigh expenditure — and price stability is a key part of the German psyche who have the memory of hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic in the 1930s.
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JOHANNESBURG/HARARE (Reuters) - When President Robert Mugabe scrapped the Zimbabwe dollar in 2009, most of his people thought this meant the end of runaway money-printing and hyperinflation that had rendered the currency worthless.
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Critics say Maduro has resorted to increasingly authoritarian tactics as the OPEC nation's economy has spiraled deeper into recession and hyperinflation, fueling discontent and prompting hundreds of thousands to emigrate in the past year.
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But opposition politicians said the Valencia disaster was another sign of the ruling socialists' incompetence in a country that is deep in economic crisis and is plagued with food shortages, hyperinflation, and rampant crime.
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His former deputy Emmerson Mnangagwa took power, vowing to root out corruption in a bid to attract investors to an economy crippled by a decade of hyperinflation and a sharp shortage of foreign currency.
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The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, which put the printing press into overdrive just over a decade ago and whose hundred trillion notes marked the zenith of hyperinflation, says it will not recklessly print money.
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Wednesday's study flagged Venezuelans' deteriorating diets, which are deficient in vitamins and protein, as currency controls restrict food imports, hyperinflation eats into salaries, and people line up for hours to buy basics like flour.
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The fight over the future control of ZANU-PF has overshadowed an economic crisis marked by chronic shortages of cash and spiraling prices of goods that has raised fears of a return to hyperinflation.
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Zimbabwe abandoned its currency in 2009, adopting the U.S. dollar in an effort to tame hyperinflation, but a severe shortage of physical notes has seen dollars in bank accounts lose value compared with cash.
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Anger is mounting over triple-digit inflation, rolling power cuts and shortages of U.S. dollars, fuel and bread, bringing back memories of the hyperinflation a decade ago that forced Zimbabwe to ditch its currency.
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Venezuelans will head to the polls Sunday to elect a new president as the country is roiled by an economic and social crisis, with millions suffering food and medicine shortages, hyperinflation and growing insecurity.
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Amid forecasts by the International Monetary Fund predicting hyperinflation could reach 10,000,000% in 2019, Venezuela moved Monday to devalue its currency and allow a new private entity to operate on the foreign exchange market.
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Contending with hyperinflation and other severe economic challenges, along with the emergence of a violent Maoist insurgency known as the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), García's first stint in office was widely considered a failure.
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It ended an internal war against the terrorist group Shining Path, settled conflicts with its neighbors, overcame hyperinflation, became a relatively stable democracy and, despite its current predicament, achieved economic growth and reduced poverty.
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One of the world's leading experts on hyperinflation is a professor at Johns Hopkins University named Steve Hanke, who has advised governments around the world on runaway inflation, including Venezuela in 1995 and '96.
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Printing money only made matters worse, unleashing hyperinflation that would go on to top 500 billion percent in 2008 before a unity government forged between Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai scrapped the currency.
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But there was no reference in Chinese state media or in Chinese government statements to new funds for Venezuela, which is struggling with a fifth year of recession and an economy wracked by hyperinflation.
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In January, with White House support, Mr. Guaidó declared himself Venezuela's interim president after accusations of electoral fraud and corruption by the Maduro government that have sent the country's economy into hyperinflation and poverty.
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A revaluation of its assets in South Sudan, which is required because of hyperinflation, further boosted earnings through a paper gain of 164 million shillings, the company said, increasing annual profit growth to 9%.
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The US has been putting pressure on Maduro's inner circle to weaken his grip of power as the people of Venezuela continue to suffer under hyperinflation, food shortages and a decline in oil production.
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His comments came as Maduro announced a single exchange rate pegged to his government's petro cryptocurrency, effectively devaluing it by 96 percent in a move economists said would fan hyperinflation in the chaotic country.
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We are not experiencing anything that resembles Stalinist state terror, but we are living through a period of mental hyperinflation: Ideas, prospects and spectacles go from unimaginable to ordinary in weeks or even days.
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Once Latin America's most prosperous country, Venezuela has over the past few years veered toward economic collapse, hyperinflation and hunger, which the opposition has blamed on corruption and mismanagement by Mr. Maduro's socialist government.
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Venezuela's crude production, a major source of revenue, has fallen to a six-decade low this year as lack of investment, recession and hyperinflation have pushed the OPEC-member country's economy to near collapse.
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The crisis in Venezuela — a once affluent, oil-rich nation now suffering from hyperinflation, acute shortages of food and medicine, and worsening crime and political violence — is also making its impact felt across the border.
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Maybelin Mendoza, a cashier at a bakery in Tachira state, said business has been further hit because points of sale stop working during blackouts - just as Venezuelans are chronically short of cash due to hyperinflation.
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Venezuela is suffering under the fifth year of a severe economic crisis that has sparked malnutrition and hyperinflation, which has caused tens of thousands of people to flee across the border into Colombia and Brazil.
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But with more than $13 trillion of sovereign debt carrying a negative yield, investors do not need helicopters to rain down money, much less hyperinflation, in order for their bond allocations to come to grief.
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An estimated 1.2 million Venezuelans have crossed into Colombia in recent years, fleeing a painful recession and hyperinflation in their homeland that has left millions of people suffering from hunger and shortages of basic goods.
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Mugabe has brought Zimbabwe to the brink of ruin during his almost-four decade tenure, with a campaign of land redistribution in 2000 and repeated bouts of hyperinflation, ruining the country's agriculture industry and economy.
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The central bank plans to introduce new bills this month worth as much as 20,000 bolivars -- 200 times the largest note currently in circulation -- after the hyperinflation turned its currency into worthless pieces of paper.
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With tensions running high after Guaido invoked the constitution to declare an interim presidency last month, Maduro has denied there is a humanitarian crisis in Venezuela despite widespread shortages of food and medicine and hyperinflation.
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The outage has added to discontent in a country already suffering from hyperinflation and a political crisis resulting from opposition leader Juan Guaido assuming the interim presidency after declaring Maduro's 2018 re-election a fraud.
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The southern African nation dumped its currency in favour of the U.S. dollar in 2009 following years of hyperinflation, and introduced bond notes in November 2016 in a bid to ease acute shortages of cash.
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Underlying non-IFRS operating margins, at constant currency, were squeezed by 1.5 percentage points in the quarter to 7.53 percent as SAP implemented hyperinflation accounting for crisis-hit markets in Latin America such as Venezuela.
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Economists welcomed the move but doubt it will prompt a swift turnaround in the southern African nation, which has grown used to currency turbulence since excessive money-printing under former leader Robert Mugabe triggered hyperinflation.
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Maduro dismisses Guaido's claim to the presidency as a Washington-backed effort to seize power in Venezuela, which is struggling under hyperinflation and crippling blackouts that have left millions of citizens without power this month.
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In 2008, at the height of an economic crisis that saw hyperinflation reach 500 billion percent, some soldiers went on a rampage in the capital, looting shops because they were unable to get their salaries.
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CARACAS, July 25 (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday said he will launch an economic recovery program for the South American nation, which is struggling under hyperinflation and chronic shortages of food and medicine.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's hyperinflation has turned the struggling OPEC nation's once-powerful banks into warehouses of useless cash that are worth a total of only $225 million, according to a Reuters analysis of regulatory data.
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Brazil's efforts to bring down the cost of living have long been hampered by laws linking government transfers, wages and controlled prices to past inflation, a legacy of rampant hyperinflation in the 1980s and 1990s.
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The southern African nation, which dumped its currency in favor of the U.S. dollar in 2009 following years of hyperinflation, introduced bond notes in November 2016 in a bid to ease acute shortages of cash.
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Zimbabwe was once one of Africa's most promising economies but suffered decades of decline as Mugabe pursued policies that included the violent seizure of white-owned commercial farms and money-printing that led to hyperinflation.
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In Venezuela, citizens wishing to buy anything of value on supermarket shelves wait all day in lines to do so, because hyperinflation causes the paper currencies in their pockets to lose significant value every day.
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Most Zimbabweans, who still vividly remember the 500 billion percent hyperinflation that wiped out their savings and pensions in 2008, are holding on to U.S. dollars as a store of value, worsening the currency shortages.
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He has arbitrarily locked up political opponents, created ludicrous conspiracy theories to explain his government's failures, and has made a tough economic landscape bleaker by picking fights with neighbors and failing to rein in hyperinflation.
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Earlier this month, Chevron Corp said two of its executives had been arrested in Venezuela - a rare move likely to spook foreign energy firms still operating in the country stricken by hyperinflation, shortages and crime.
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HARARE (Reuters) - Robert Mugabe, the bush war guerrilla who led Zimbabwe to independence and crushed his foes during nearly four decades of rule as his country descended into poverty, hyperinflation and unrest, died on Friday.
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The latest sanctions come as Washington ramps up pressure on senior Venezuelan figures for their role in the country's severe economic and social crisis, with millions suffering food and medicine shortages, hyperinflation and growing insecurity.
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Those hit hardest are not the rich (whose wealth is in property, stocks and commodities) but the middle class, which depends on local-currency salaries, savings and pensions whose value is siphoned off by hyperinflation.
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Keep in mind that Venezuela was also the worst-performing economy in the world last year, when the country's gross domestic product collapsed by 18 percent amid a currency collapse and a surge of hyperinflation.
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The central bank tried to print its way out of trouble by unleashing a flood of cash but that only made matters worse, leading to hyperinflation that topped out at 500 billion percent in 2008.
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With prices on a relentless tear, TCW's Roca said it's not clear how the Maduro government will be able to deal with hyperinflation, which usually tends to accelerate political decline, even with a marginalized opposition.
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But the move may further weaken the opposition's already flagging campaign to oust Maduro, and creates two competing leaders of parliament in a nation caught in a political standoff and suffering a hyperinflation economic collapse.
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The mature, bespectacled teen always enjoyed drawing animals and cars, but a few years ago began sketching the despair of his compatriots in the face of hyperinflation, mass emigration and shortages of food and medicine.
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Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro announced on Friday a single exchange rate pegged to his socialist governments petro cryptocurrency, effectively devaluing by 96 percent in a move economists said would fan hyperinflation in the chaotic country.
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While printing money to erase debt seems like an easy solution, most economists warn it would put the world's largest economy on a fast track to hyperinflation and a devalued currency (think Zimbabwe and Venezuela).
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The southern African nation adopted the U.S. dollar in 2009 to tame hyperinflation, but it is facing acute dollar shortages and that has sent prices of basic goods spiralling and inflation rising to double digits.
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The launch of a new fiat currency is at the center of Maduro's strategy to stem hyperinflation, which the International Monetary Fund predicted would jump to 1 million percent by the end of the year.
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As the Washington Post's Catherine Rampell writes, he complained of imminent hyperinflation at the height of the Great Recession while now arguing that the economy faces deflation when there's no evidence of this in economic data.
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The southern African nation dumped its hyperinflation-wrecked currency in favor of the U.S. dollar in 2009 but a shortage of cash dollars has worsened following a disputed election won by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in July.
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In the fourth quarter, Unilever blamed Argentina, which makes up 2.5 percent of its overall business, for hyperinflation that led prices to spike more than 50 percent and therefore volume to fall more than 20 percent.
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KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's prime minister proposed cutting operating costs of government ministries and other public services by 30 percent on Monday, warning of a risk of hyperinflation if the government failed to act.
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It also coincides with the growing dollarization of a collapsing economy in which many professionals - from doctors and dentists to personal trainers - are now charging in hard currency to avoid having their earnings swallowed by hyperinflation.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's power supply remained patchy on Friday after the worst blackout in decades paralyzed most of the country, exacerbating hardship for millions of people already suffering from hyperinflation and widespread shortages of basic goods.
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CARACAS, June 20 (Reuters) - Venezuela on Wednesday tripled its minimum wage to 3 million bolivars per month, equivalent to just $1.14 at the black market exchange rate, as the crisis-ridden OPEC nation struggles under hyperinflation.
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In 1956 Phillip Cagan, an economist working at America's National Bureau of Economic Research, published a seminal study of hyperinflation, which he defined as a period in which prices rise by more than 50% a month.
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Yields also look excessive when compared to Brazil's emerging market peers: even Argentina, with a similar history of hyperinflation, is attracting hoards of investors to its domestic debt markets with real yields of just 2 percent.
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Venezuela's crisis has been marked by corruption, hyperinflation, one of the world's highest homicide rates, food and medicine shortages and the largest exodus "in the recent history of Latin America," according to the U.N. Refugee Agency.
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It is a far cry from the mass privatizations, lifting of currency controls and slashing of subsidies that her father pushed through to fix an economy crippled by a deep recession, hyperinflation and a debt default.
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Maduro's critics say he is using the incident to stifle dissent and cement his power in the oil-rich nation amid the economic crisis that has brought with it salary-destroying hyperinflation and frequent power cuts.
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The southern African nation, which adopted the U.S. dollar after dumping its hyperinflation-hit currency in 2009, is gripped by a shortage of cash dollars, which has seen prices of imported goods spiral in recent weeks.
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The outage has added to discontent in a country already suffering from hyperinflation and a political crisis after opposition leader Juan Guaido assumed the interim presidency in January after declaring Maduro's 2018 re-election a fraud.
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Thanks to a potent mix of hyperinflation, intense price and currency controls, disappointing oil revenue, and years of terrible governmental decision making, we're also blessed with the fact that very normal goods are extremely scarce here.
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Sometimes the political link is direct: dire warnings about the coming depression/hyperinflation, from which you can only protect yourself by buying Ron Paul's DVDs (the "Ron Paul curriculum") or gold shares hawked by Glenn Beck.
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Or consider how many on the right reacted after their dire predictions of hyperinflation under Obama failed to pan out — not by admitting that they were wrong, but by insisting that the numbers were being cooked.
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I remember we closed school early in November that year because the hyperinflation was at its peak and the school did not have and could not afford maize meal to sustain us for the remaining month.
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The arrest follows last week's detention of nine army officers on charges including treason and rebellion, according to a local rights group, as dissent mounts in parts of the military due to food shortages and hyperinflation.
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Inflation is a concern within Germany as it's still haunted by the hyperinflation of the 1920s and top economists — like Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann — have been noticeably cautious on too much bond buying from the ECB.
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Citizens of the crisis-torn nation are struggling to cope with widespread food shortages, the collapse of its traditional currency and hyperinflation — which the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has forecast to hit 13,000 percent in 2018.
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When the war seemed to be going badly, the committees maintained public order, regulated prices and wages during a period of hyperinflation, and exposed profiteers who viewed the revolution as a chance to line their pockets.
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When the war seemed to be going badly, the committees maintained public order, regulated prices and wages during a period of hyperinflation, and exposed profiteers who viewed the revolution as a chance to line their pockets.
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Throughout her campaign Keiko sought to take advantage of the nostalgia many in Peru feel for her father's achievements, such as taming hyperinflation and leading the country when the Maoist Shining Path guerrillas were finally crushed.
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It appeared the emigration crisis Venezuela had experienced in recent years as its economy collapsed would continue since Maduro's government was unlikely to change policies that led to hyperinflation, food and medicine shortages and rising crime.
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Alberto Fujimori is now serving a 25-year sentence for graft and human rights abuses during his 1990-2000 government, but many Peruvians credit him with quashing a leftist insurgency and ending years of hyperinflation and recession.
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The cases are part of a broad effort by U.S. prosecutors to crack down on the use of the American financial system to launder proceeds from corruption in the crisis-stricken country that is suffering from hyperinflation.
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Unable to cover even the most basic of expenses amid hyperinflation, Guarate was emigrating to Colombia and had to spend the night on the street as he waited for overwhelmed Venezuelan migration authorities to stamp his passport.
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JUBA, May 12 (Reuters) - South Sudan's largest bank is shutting more branches as hyperinflation and a shortage of dollars eat into the group's profits, the managing director said, underscoring country's worsening financial woes amid a civil war.
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But Steve Hanke, an economics professor at Johns Hopkins University in the United States, said in paper published this week that hyperinflation - defined as monthly inflation above 2820 percent for at least 30 consecutive days - had returned.
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Macri needs to close the festering dispute to tap global credit markets and lure back investors, and had warned Argentina faced a return to hyperinflation or aggressive spending cuts if the chamber had knocked down the proposal.
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Botswana, the world's largest producer of diamonds, shares 800 km (500 miles) of border with Zimbabwe and has felt the full effects of its neighbor's economic collapse under the weight of political violence and hyperinflation since 2000.
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Maduro is seeking to capitalize on the success of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin by creating one for Venezuela as its traditional currency, the bolivar, plunges to all-time lows against the dollar and the country struggles with hyperinflation.
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Normally, that would lead to inflation — and even hyperinflation — as imported necessities become scarcer and people who can afford to do so dump their holdings in the local currency to buy safer U.S. dollars or Chinese yuan.
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The move sought to convince the international investment community that the PT could be trusted with the stewardship of the world's ninth largest economy: there would be no return to the devaluations and hyperinflation of the past.
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South Sudan's cattle camps are not only a cultural tradition, but provide a lifeline for millions in the world's youngest country, enabling them to trade and store their wealth as hyperinflation has rendered the currency almost worthless.
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Monetization has led to hyperinflation at its worst, but that is not the main concern right now, when social unrest is a concern from millions being suddenly thrown out of work, as reported by The New Yorker.
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The OPEC nation on Monday cut five zeros from prices and pegged the country's currency to an obscure state-backed cryptocurrency, as part of a broad set of measures meant to address hyperinflation and an economic crisis.
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For Germany, a balanced budget — one where revenues match or outweigh expenditure — and price stability are pillars of the nation's collective psyche, which still has memories of the hyperinflation that crippled the Weimar Republic in the 1930s.
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Venezuela's hyperinflation, expected to reach 10 million percent this year according to the I.M.F., is on track to become the longest period of runaway price rises since that in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the 1990s.
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The money arrives on its own' His first leftist presidency, from 1985 to 453, ended in national catastrophe, with one of the worst cases of hyperinflation in global history and the Shining Path all but besieging Lima.
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Yet, to its credit, in the past 25 years, it has ended an internal war, settled conflicts with its neighbors, overcome hyperinflation, become a stable democracy and, despite its current predicament, achieved economic growth and reduced poverty.
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In sum, this is the unpalatable choice confronting the Iranian leadership: It can keep the economy going by continuing to steer credit to banks and industry, adding to the risks of an eventual banking disaster and hyperinflation.
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"This is a smoke-and-mirrors operation typical of Venezuela — I'll believe it when I see it," said Steve Hanke, professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University and one of the world's leading experts on hyperinflation.
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MAIQUETIA, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuela's domestic airline industry is struggling to maintain operations due to hyperinflation and shortages of spare parts, according to an industry association, making it increasingly hard to obtain tickets and causing chronic flight delays.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced a 40 percent increase to the minimum wage as of January, a move that will foment what many economists already consider hyperinflation in the oil-rich but crisis-stricken nation.
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Citizens of the crisis-torn state are struggling to cope with widespread food shortages, the collapse of its traditional currency and relentless hyperinflation — which the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has forecast to hit 13,000 percent in 2018.
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For Germany, a balanced budget — one where revenues match or outweigh expenditure — and price stability are pillars of the nation's collective psyche, which still has memories of the hyperinflation that crippled the Weimar Republic in the 1920s.
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Its economy has shrunk by more than two thirds since 2013; incomes have fallen to their lowest levels in decades; hyperinflation wreaks havoc with savings and purchasing; and people scavenge for food and collect firewood to survive.
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A former union leader, bus driver and foreign minister, the 56-year-old Maduro, who first took office in 2013, has faced waves of protests in recent years as he presided over hyperinflation and chronic food shortages.
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The proposal could provide ammunition for Maduro's claims that Guaido is a puppet for foreign interests, but is unlikely to damage widespread support for the opposition leader, with many Venezuelans tired of years of shortages and hyperinflation.
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The incident highlights how multinational companies in Venezuela have become more aggressive in pushing back against the socialist government's demands that they sell goods at below production costs as the country struggles under hyperinflation and deepening recession.
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For most Zimbabweans, daily life is becoming harder as small incomes earned mostly from the informal sector are chewed up by soaring prices that have evoked fears of a return to the hyperinflation of a decade ago.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - From supermarket checkouts in the capital Caracas to electronics stores in the central city of Maracay, Venezuelans struggling with hyperinflation and a deep economic crisis are turning to a new form of payment: euros in cash.
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