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Macroeconomics 4: Inflation & Drinking Buddies

Planet Money Summer School

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What Is Hyper Inflation?

Hyper inflation is when prices are rising at a rate of a thousand % or more per year. And we've never experienced anything like that in this country, thank goodness. But countries all over the world have suffered this. We're about to hear a story about hyper inflation and the terrible effects it had on the people and the government of brazil.

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