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As a general rule hyperflation is highly unlikely in a country like the United States that still has the ability to tax its citizens.
unknown title 2011
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Michael Kinsley has a very strange column alleging that we’re soon going to face hyperflation: “When everybody assumes 10 percent, all the forces that produced 10 percent push it to 20 percent, and then 40 percent, and soon people are lugging currency in a wheelbarrow, as in the famous photos from Weimar Germany.”
Matthew Yglesias » Kinsley’s Transcendental Deduction of Hyperinflation 2010
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"I am convinced that everything the government is doing to fight this off is gonna make america turn into another hyperflation basket case such as argentina was, or perhaps even as bad as zimbabwe 'this is exactly what Peter Shciff said on Australian News program' Dateline '.
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