Prof. Steve Hanke: Venezuela "Dangerously Close" to Hyperinflation

Novinite Insider » OPINIONS | June 5, 2015, Friday // 11:54
Bulgaria: Prof. Steve Hanke: Venezuela "Dangerously Close" to Hyperinflation Steve Hanke, Professor of Applied Economics at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore

Venezuela is "dangerously close" to hyperinflation with its inflation rate currently at 45% per month, Prof. Steve Hanke has opined.

"If inflation moves much higher, the legacy of Hugo Chavez's Bolivarian Revolution will be that Venezuela joins the rather select hyperinflation club as the 57th member," Prof. Hanke wrote in a blog.

You can read the full text of the blog "Venezuela: Not Hyperinflating -- Yet" here.

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