In article <bu4mng$d4jlr$1@ID-101276.news.uni-berlin.de>, Ryan Ginstrom
<ginstrom@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Brazil was also interesting. Inflation there was around 10% a day.
> Restaurants would write their menus on chalk boards, then erase them and
> write new prices every day.

When inflation was really intense in Brazil, the better-off folks had
these "overnight accounts".  Their money was routinely converted to
dollars or yen or something.  For example: In the morning their account
would have lost only 1% of it's stated value (with the banking fees and
transactions) while hard currency might have lost 4%.

In book stores they had no prices on their stock, only colored
stickers. At the cash-register the price associated with each color was
rewritten a couple of times a day...

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