Venezuela (and almost all the classic hyperinflation cases) are forex crises. You can't print foreign currency, which you need to buy goods on the international market; and the collapse by mismanagement of Venuela's oil industry and any other export industries means that the currency is just going to keep devaluing as the trade fails to balance.
> That salaries are picking up doesn't mean real salaries have improved.
It is however a necessary condition for real salaries to improve that nominal salaries improve. Which needs a tight labour market.
Venezuela (and almost all the classic hyperinflation cases) are forex crises. You can't print foreign currency, which you need to buy goods on the international market; and the collapse by mismanagement of Venuela's oil industry and any other export industries means that the currency is just going to keep devaluing as the trade fails to balance.
> That salaries are picking up doesn't mean real salaries have improved.
It is however a necessary condition for real salaries to improve that nominal salaries improve. Which needs a tight labour market.