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  2. Hyperinflation - Wikipedia

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    Highest monthly inflation rates in history as of August 2012 [120] [121] Country Currency name Month Rate (%) Equivalent daily inflation rate (%) Time required for prices to double Highest denomination Hungary: Hungarian pengÅ‘: July 1946 4.19 × 10 16: 207.19 14.82 hours 100 quintillion P (10 20) Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe dollar: November 2008 7.96 ...

  3. Worst Periods for the American Economy Since 1900 - AOL

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    Annual Inflation Rate: 0% in 1900 to 3.7% in 1910 to 15.6% in 1920 The modern economy in America really began around the turn of the century, when the country shifted toward industrialism and away ...

  4. Stagflation - Wikipedia

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    Neo-Keynesian theory distinguished two distinct kinds of inflation: demand-pull (caused by shifts of the aggregate demand curve) and cost-push (caused by shifts of the aggregate supply curve). Stagflation, in this view, is caused by cost-push inflation. Cost-push inflation occurs when some force or condition increases the costs of production.

  5. Inflation - Wikipedia

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    Inflation has been a feature of history during the entire period when money has been used as a means of payment. One of the earliest documented inflations occurred in Alexander the Great's empire 330 BCE. [26] Historically, when commodity money was used, periods of inflation and deflation would alternate depending on the condition of the ...

  6. Inflation is no longer at a 40-year high but still stubborn ...

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    Prices aren’t rising as quickly as they once were, but the worst inflation crisis in 40 years is far from over. Since February 2020, consumer prices have jumped 20.4 percent, a Bankrate analysis ...

  7. Federal Reserve signals end to inflation fight with a sizable ...

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    The Federal Reserve on Wednesday cut its benchmark interest rate by an unusually large half-point, a dramatic shift after more than two years of high rates that helped tame inflation but also made ...

  8. Great Recession in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In a May 9, 2008 report, the chief North American economist for investment bank Merrill Lynch wrote that despite the GDP growth reported for the first quarter of 2008, "it is still reasonable to believe that the recession started some time between September and January", on the grounds that the National Bureau of Economic Research's four ...

  9. US incomes rose last year but poverty rates changed little ...

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    Inflation, by the central bank's preferred measure had fallen from a high of 7.1% on an annual basis in June 2022 to 5.5% at the beginning of 2023, before more than halving to 2.6% by last ...