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High Inflation Rates

Posted by Vikas Sah on Tuesday, March 6, 2007

1,594% was the estimated annual inflation rate in trouble-racked Zimbabwe in January – the highest in the world.

4,000% is the inflation rate predicted by the International Monetary Fund for Zimbabwe by year’s end of the prices continue to soar and the government doesn’t devalue the currency.

(Source: Time Magazine)

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Replace dollar bills by coins

Posted by Vikas Sah on Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Dollar coins can circulate for 30 years compared with 18 to 22 months for a dollar bill.

US would save $500 million each year if dollar bills were replaced by coins, like the new, golden George Washington ones release Feb. 15. (Source: Time Magazine)

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