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Re:Venezuela's Inflation to Reach 1M Percent by realusername on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @07:08AM (#17599882)
> In this case, I think a new money supply is needed or no one will want to sell anything, as they’d be stuck with a much more depreciatimg asset.

Yes indeed, that's exactly how they solved this issue in Brazil: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/10/04/130329523/how-...

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Re:Venezuela's Inflation to Reach 1M Percent by isolli on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @07:42AM (#17600076)
Similar approaches were used during the French revolution [0], after the American revolution [1], and by the Nazis before the war [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assignat [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_American_currency#Contin... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsmark

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