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Hyperinflation: Weimar, Zimbabwe, Venezuela

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A ten minute lab doubles a snack item's price every sixty seconds so students run out of play money fast enough to feel what fifty percent monthly inflation does. A case study assigns Hungary's 1946 forint reform or Brazil's 1994 real alongside Germany's.

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