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> Zimbabwe A quick history: * https://clintballinger.com/2020/04/30/airplane-crashes-arent-hyperlandings-notes-on-zimbabwe/ https://clintballinger.com/2020/04
by throw0101a 5y ago
> Zimbabwe
A quick history:
* https://clintballinger.com/2020/04/30/airplane-crashes-arent-hyperlandings-notes-on-zimbabwe/ https://clintballinger.com/2020/04/30/airplane-crashes-arent...
Another example of not bothering with the context of the situation:
> I am dismayed by the way writers insist on reporting the collapse of a currency as a “monthly inflation rate” with some ridiculous figure associated that helps a normal person not-at-all understand anything (e.g., Yugoslavia in 1992-94: highest monthly inflation rate = 313,000,000%!!!!)
> They had a war. Their government collapsed. They couldn’t tax. They couldn’t produce. Their currency collapsed. The idea that “313,000,000%” tells us anything of interest is ridiculous. A few newspaper headlines on peace treaties, troop movements, famine, reconstruction—literally anything— would be infinitely more informing.
* https://clintballinger.com/2021/01/12/the-myth-of-hyperinflation/ https://clintballinger.com/2021/01/12/the-myth-of-hyperinfla...