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Ghost of Chavez Can't Stop Hyperinflation
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro doesn't have good options to slow rising prices.
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Steve Hanke, a Johns Hopkins economist who studies hyperinflation, thinks that Venezuela is sliding into a hyperinflation episode.
The official inflation rate is about 50 percent a year. Hanke puts the actual inflation rate at more like 280 percent a year.