Old 01-11-2009, 06:19 AM
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There doesn't seem to be a generally agreed definition of exactly how high inflation has to be to be termed hyperinflation, but it seems most economists would agree that anything beyond 100% per month certainly qualifies as hyperinflation.

Using that definition I don't believe that we will get hyperinflation here.

I do believe that we will get historically quite high inflation, along the lines of the late 70s and early eighties. I think that we might have a slight, short term of falling prices, but when the coming deficit spending stimulus package hits, inflation will go up to 10%-15% per year for a few years.

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