A rapid and sharp increase in the
Prices (loss of purchasing power; loss of monetary value). – For a good worth 1 denarius in the Roman Empire of the year 301, one had to pay already 6’600’000 (no spelling mistake!) denarii in the year 400. A galloping inflation accelerates easily and then leads to high inflation, also called hyperinflation. – In Germany, for example, the USD cost 7.25 marks in 1919 and 4.2 trillion marks in the spring of 1923. At the beginning of 1923, the price of 1 liter of milk had risen to 2,000 billion marks, the postage for a letter cost several million marks; over seventeen hundred printers were busy producing new banknotes for the Reichsbank. – See cash franking, makeshift bill, substitute coins, money, moral, hyperinflation country, hyperinflation, cash bill, middle class, squeezed, coinage system, Roman, emergency money, national debt repayment, talent.
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Passende Formel
Inflationsrate
Die prozentuale Veränderung eines Preisindex zwischen zwei Perioden bestimmen.
Variablen: π Inflationsrate in Prozent; P Preisindex.
Anwendung: Für Verbraucherpreisindex, BIP-Deflator und andere Preisindizes.