Roy Bennett

In the late 1990s, Mugabe's misguided policies sent our economy and agricultural productivity, our country's lifeblood, plummeting into the abyss. To make up for the financial shortfall, his regime attempted to print its way out of the mess, immediately resulting in inconceivable hyperinflation, topping out at 231 million percent.

Zimbabwean Politician

Steve Hanke

Following Greece's defeat at the hands of Turkey in 1897, Greece's fiscal house was entrusted to a Control Commission. During the 20th century, the drachma was one of the world's worst currencies. It recorded the world's sixth highest hyperinflation. In October 1944, Greece's monthly inflation rate hit 13,800%.

American Economist

Rick Santelli

Look at the Weimar Republic and their hyperinflation in the early '20s. It didn't happen overnight. I've used the analogy, it's a lot like soybeans: you plant 'em, you wait. Conditions take some time. You need some sun; you need some water, but ultimately things start to grow, and are we in that phase or not?

American Journalist

James Surowiecki

Businesses that have gone through an episode of hyperinflation become understandably alert to the threat of it: at the first hint of inflation, they're likely to increase prices, since they've learned that if they don't, and inflation hits, their businesses will be wrecked.

Chuck Grassley

The Fed has the ability to put money out, it's got the ability to take money back in, and if they don't do that, we will have hyperinflation worse than we had in 1980 and 1981.

American Politician

Porter Stansberry

Stocks actually can be a very good hedge against inflation, and short of hyperinflation, stocks will have the ability to increase their dividends to match the rise in prices.

American Publisher

Paul Singer

Check out London, Manhattan, Aspen and East Hampton real estate prices, as well as high-end art prices, to see what the leading edge of hyperinflation could look like.

American Businessman

Eugene Fama

Economies typically do not function well in hyperinflation. The real value of government debt might disappear, but the economy is likely to disappear with it.

Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

Bolivia was the first country to stop hyperinflation in a democracy without depriving people of their civil rights and without violating human rights.

Bolivian Politician

Thomas Sowell

Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

Hyperinflation signifies catastrophic economic conditions and can imply social and political instability.

Economic Disaster

Hyperinflation involves prices increasing rapidly over a short time, affecting affordability of goods.

Swift Price Hikes

Hyperinflation is quantified by inflation rates, often exceeding 50% per month.

Economic Measurement

In medical terms, hyperinflation is not about money but about lung expansion and health problems.

Medical Condition

Hyperinflation often accompanies chronic respiratory diseases like asthma or COPD.

Associated Diseases

Patients with lung hyperinflation may experience shortness of breath and reduced exercise tolerance.

Breathing Hardships

 Yet counterintuitively, during an asthma attack, the inflammation can make it harder to exhale than inhale. Over time, this leads to an excess of air in the lungs, a phenomenon known as hyperinflation. The trapping of air inside the lungs forces the body to work harder

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 to print more and more money for other education, health care, welfare -- even defense. And there are some truly terrible historical examples of money printing -- uncontrolled money printing -- leading to hyperinflation.

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 changing since the moment you went into the store if you visit Brazil now you will see that the nightmare of hyperinflation stayed back in the 20th