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Edgar Pereira Marin

Edgar is a Venezuelan student and a lover of digital innovations and related businesses. He strongly believes that technology and knowledge sharing will make the world a freer and better place for everyone. Edgar is a writing fellow from the second cohort of the Fellowship for Freedom in India.

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How to prepare yourself for hyperinflation: tips from the Venezuelan experience

December 8, 2022
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Basic Economics

Spanish professor Jesús Huerta de Soto defines inflation as “the increase in the amount of the money offered in a certain market and which, under equal circumstances, leads to a decrease of the acquisitive power”. Abrupt changes in the monetary system can result in inflation and when governments print currency notes disproportionate to the state of the economy, countries can face rapid and massive levels of price rise called hyperinflation.  Inflation in my country, Venezuela, has been commonplace for more than 12 years now. People have tacitly accepted that the prices of food, medicines