Economics

For Americans Shocked by Inflation, Argentines Have Some Advice

  • Inflation at 40-year highs is unnerving American shoppers
  • Argentines learned inflation survival tactics the hard way
Summers: Inflation Outlook Worst in 40 Years
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For many Americans, the sudden burst of inflation that has rocked the economy has been disorienting.

Consumer prices had been so stable for so long in the U.S. that the population finds itself a little rusty on basic inflationary-era tactics.