Billionaire Sweepers
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"e;The Billionaire Sweepers - The year a cup of coffee cost 41 quadrillion dollars"e; recounts the most extreme case of hyperinflation in human history: Hungary in 1946. We often think of Weimar Germany (1923) as the worst, but the Hungarian inflation was a million times faster. Prices doubled every 15 hours. Historian Victor Pengo chronicles the life of the "e;Pengo"e; currency. At the peak, th...
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"e;The Billionaire Sweepers - The year a cup of coffee cost 41 quadrillion dollars"e; recounts the most extreme case of hyperinflation in human history: Hungary in 1946. We often think of Weimar Germany (1923) as the worst, but the Hungarian inflation was a million times faster. Prices doubled every 15 hours. Historian Victor Pengo chronicles the life of the "e;Pengo"e; currency. At the peak, th...
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