Re:The Worst Hyperinflations in History: Hungary in 1946 (2014)
by lnino on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @02:40PM
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So, 30% a year is just business as usual?
Yes, oil hit then hard. But they already had pretty high inflation before.
Not sure what counts as "hyper". Certainly having my salary go down 10% a year automatically is not a reasonable proposition.
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Re:The Worst Hyperinflations in History: Hungary in 1946 (2014)
by Jtsummers on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @02:49PM
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I agree with your general point, monetary policy was the cause of much of the inflation and had they not mismanaged their oil industry they may have been able to survive with the bad monetary policy much longer. And better monetary policy may have put them in a position to handle the issues in the oil industry. But the immediate need to print more money was the drop in production capacity and price, which is what led to the hyperinflation at the end of 2015 to present.
Hyperinflation is usually very, very high inflation. Original definition was 50% monthly inflation (this would be 600% annual, higher actually since it would be compounding). 30% annual inflation isn't hyperinflation (though it's certainly not good, and after several years could be catastrophic on its own).