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For example, in the 1970s in the United Kingdom inflation reached 25% per annum, yet interest rates did not rise above 15%—and then only briefly—and many fixed interest rate loans existed. Contractually, there is often no bar to a debtor clearing his long term debt with "hyperinflated cash", nor could a lender simply somehow suspend the loan.
Inflation can lead to massive demonstrations and revolutions. For example, inflation and in particular food inflation is considered one of the main reasons that caused the 2010–2011 Tunisian revolution [112] and the 2011 Egyptian revolution, [113] according to many observers including Robert Zoellick, [114] president of the World Bank.
A 500 billion dinar banknote, which was the largest denomination banknote printed in Yugoslavia. Between 1992 and 1994, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) experienced the second-longest period of hyperinflation in world economic history [1] after that of 1920s Russia, [a] caused by an explosive growth in the money supply of the Yugoslav economy during the Yugoslav Wars. [3]
The national consumer price index rose 6.2 percent from October 2020 to October 2021. That's the largest 12-month increase since 1990, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
– Examples where inflation has eased, ranked by the size of the change: Passenger travel by air: August up 11.9%, September down 5.0% Olive oil: Aug up 40.8%, Sep up 33.0%
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A specimen of a 1922 One Chervonets banknote. Hyperinflation in early Soviet Russia was ultimately halted by the adoption of such gold-backed currency.. Hyperinflation in early Soviet Russia connotes a seven-year period of uncontrollable spiraling inflation in the early Soviet Union, running from the earliest days of the Bolshevik Revolution in November 1917 to the reestablishment of the gold ...
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