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Hyperinflation: Weimar, Zimbabwe, Venezuela

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Zimbabwe, Venezuela, and Weimar Germany each get a log-scale chart students convert into an actual percent, from Weimar's 29,500 percent peak to Zimbabwe's 79.6 billion percent a month. A five-step pattern of printing money for deficits ties all three currencies together.

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