Hyperinflation involves price increases running out of control as a currency collapses in value.
Historians cite examples of fiat currencies imploding after hyperinflation, making these worries a real concern.
There is only the prospect of Americans suffering through either a deflationary depression or hyperinflation.
Devaluing your currency to pay foreign creditors leads to hyperinflation and complete economic chaos.
Hyperinflation can cause not only economic disaster, but also a collapse of law and order.
It finally took another finance minister, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, to tame hyperinflation with his Real Plan.
Many economists pooh-pooh the idea of hyperinflation bursting forth in a stable democracy, Grice notes.
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While this new money probably will not create inflation, it could well create hyperinflation.
This is good news for a region long plagued by currency devaluations and hyperinflation.
The whole world seems to believe that 4 percent money growth is about to ignite hyperinflation.
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He tamed hyperinflation, opened up the economy and launched two decades of rapid economic growth.
By the time Mr Meirelles became central bank chief, Brazil had conquered its once-notorious hyperinflation.
Its fear is less a rerun of the Great Depression than the hyperinflation of the 1920s.
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While inflation, let alone hyperinflation, has not yet occurred, everything is in place for this outcome.
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But since 1986 Argentina has suffered first hyperinflation, then price stability and a trade opening.
The rial is dying and hyperinflation is creating real potential for full-fledged economic panic.
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Dines says that the excess credit creation could even ignite "hyperinflation" that will eventually destroy the currency.
Having overcome hyperinflation, and ridden out last year's devaluation, the economy is now set to grow again.
And it is why no policy adjustment, short of debt cancellation or hyperinflation, will make any damned difference.
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Hyperinflation and high interest rates embroiled Brazil a year later, and CBD teetered on the edge of bankruptcy.
During his banking debacle Schumpeter saw the distorting ravages of hyperinflation, which hit 134% between 1921 and 1922.
He worked his way up as an ace trader during a period in which Brazil was experiencing hyperinflation.
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This is good news for a region long plagued by currency devaluations and hyperinflation, both punishing to consumers.
Most voters cited his victories over left-wing insurgents and hyperinflation as the reason for giving him their support.
Both countries have seen hyperinflation and a squeeze on incoming foreign currency as a result of the shutdown.
When Fear Takes Over: The Prospect of Hyperinflation by Bill Bonner originally appeared in the Daily Reckoning.
But the hyperinflation raging at the time in Russia and Kazakhstan yielded chaos.
The Daily Reckoning has published articles on the impact of quantitative easing, bakken oil, and hyperinflation.
Five percent money growth with 9.1 percent unemployment is going to cause hyperinflation?
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