In 1966, Milton Friedman wrote, as he often did, some memorable lines that have entered the lexicon of economic quotables. As Friedman correctly put it in a book chapter titled “What Price Guideposts?”: “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, resulting from and accompanied by a rise in the quantity of money relative to output…. It follows that the only effective way to stop inflation is to restrain the rate of growth of the quantity of money.” While true, Friedman’s classic statement doesn’t tell us anything about what drives the growth of the money supply that fuels inflation. Hyperinflations are rather rare. The first hyperinflation occurred in France, where the mandate collapsed. In August 1796, France’s monthly inflation rate peaked at 304%. Almost half of the 58 recorded hyperinflations occurred in the 1990's and were the result of the funding deficiencies associated with the new post-communist states. Today, there is only one hyperinflation, Venezuela’s. Post an article related to Venezuela's hyperinflation and discuss the consequences of hyperinflation on Venezuelan economy.

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In 1966, Milton Friedman wrote, as he often did, some memorable lines that have entered the lexicon of economic quotables. As Friedman correctly put it in a book chapter titled “What Price Guideposts?”: “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, resulting from and accompanied by a rise in the quantity of money relative to output…. It follows that the only effective way to stop inflation is to restrain the rate of growth of the quantity of money.”

While true, Friedman’s classic statement doesn’t tell us anything about what drives the growth of the money supply that fuels inflation. Hyperinflations are rather rare. The first hyperinflation occurred in France, where the mandate collapsed. In August 1796, France’s monthly inflation rate peaked at 304%. Almost half of the 58 recorded hyperinflations occurred in the 1990's and were the result of the funding deficiencies associated with the new post-communist states. Today, there is only one hyperinflation, Venezuela’s.

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