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==Hyperinflation==
==Hyperinflation==
[[Image:Wheelbarrow money.jpg|right|thumb|A wheelbarrow full of printed currency during the Weimar republic.]]
[[Hyperinflation]] is out of control inflation and has occurred when there is a massive imbalance between the supply and demand and a complete loss of confidence in the [[currency]]. It has occurred when prices are decontrolled by central governments, like in the [[economic collapse]] of the [[USSR]], where inflation reached over 1000% in some areas.<ref>[http://globalis.gvu.unu.edu/indicator.cfm?IndicatorID=152&Year=1995&Country=UA] Inflation Indicators Ukraine</ref>
[[Hyperinflation]] is out of control inflation and has occurred when there is a massive imbalance between the supply and demand and a complete loss of confidence in the [[currency]]. It has occurred when prices are decontrolled by central governments, like in the [[economic collapse]] of the [[USSR]], where inflation reached over 1000% in some areas.<ref>[http://globalis.gvu.unu.edu/indicator.cfm?IndicatorID=152&Year=1995&Country=UA] Inflation Indicators Ukraine</ref>
The worst episodes of hyperinflation historically have been in [[Weimar Germany]] in 1923 (after [[World War I]]), [[Hungary]] after [[World War II]], and [[Zimbabwe]] in the late 2000s.
The worst episodes of hyperinflation historically have been in [[Weimar Germany]] in 1923 (after [[World War I]]), [[Hungary]] after [[World War II]], and [[Zimbabwe]] in the late 2000s.
At the peak of the inflationary cycle during the Weimar Republic, workers were paid twice daily in wheelbarrows. Currency was rubber-stamped with extra zeros because new currency could not be printed fast enough.
==Politics and inflation==
==Politics and inflation==