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Re:The resource leak bug of our civilization by XorNot on Monday December 01, 2014 @08:03AM (#8680714)
Devaluations in the range of even 90% aren't hyperinflation. Hyperinflation is "wheel barrows of money for bread". It is a scale and rate of devaluation that does not allow informed financial decisions about the market to be made.

It is very different to a currency falling a large amount of its value over the course of a couple of years. People have time to divest, predict, etc. - otherwise engage in normal business activities.

Re:The resource leak bug of our civilization by EGreg on Monday December 01, 2014 @10:54AM (#8681667)
Didn't it also happen in Zimbabwe?
Re:The resource leak bug of our civilization by randallsquared on Monday December 01, 2014 @01:05PM (#8682585)
XorNot carefully avoided that recent case by specifying "in the western world".
Re:The resource leak bug of our civilization by ArkyBeagle on Monday December 01, 2014 @08:22PM (#8685172)
Zimbabwe is a failed state. They abandoned having a currency at all.