hyperinflation
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Her approval rating slipped to about 30% in three private polls conducted last month as Venezuelans suffer under hyperinflation, high unemployment and power outages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026
In the mid-2000s, Zimbabwe underwent a period of hyperinflation that resulted in printing banknotes worth 100 trillion dollars.
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2026
But history is the unseen guest at every table; the country remains haunted by the memory of the hyperinflation that devastated the economy in the 1920s and helped propel the Nazis to power.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026
Even so, petroleum was still a lifeline for a nation mired in more than a decade of economic, political and social tumult marked by mass emigration, hyperinflation and a near-ubiquitous sense of despair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2026
Russian businesses are used to operating without a banking system, or in hyperinflation.
From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Vaknin, Samuel
From 2008, when prices were doubling almost every day - one of the largest hyperinflations ever recorded - prices fell 7.7% in 2009, according to the International Monetary Fund.
From Reuters ● Nov. 23, 2023
Sargent also explored the implications of these ideas in empirical investigations, for example, in his studies of European hyperinflations and fiscal policies used historically by European countries to finance wars.
From BusinessWeek ● Oct. 13, 2011
