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🇻🇪Venezuela

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Beginning in 2016 I collaborated with Charles Bushnell and added Venezuela as the 57th-ever case of hyperinflation in the Hanke–Krus World Hyperinflation Table, after showing that monthly inflation exceeded 50% for at least 30 days. According to my estimates, Venezuela’s inflation reached an annual rate of roughly 80,000% in 2018. 

Listen to my own explanation of the situation in Venezuela:

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Related Pages

  • What Is Hyperinflation?
  • Zimbabwe — The second-worst hyperinflation
  • Hungary — The worst hyperinflation in history
  • Home: Hyperinflation — Return to the Hyperinflation overview
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