50 - Steve Hanke on Hyperinflations

Published: March 27, 2017, 10:23 a.m.

b'Steve Hanke is a professor of applied economics and co-director of the Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He is also a senior fellow and director of the Troubled Currencies Project at the Cato Institute. Steve joins the show to discuss his work on the history of hyperinflations. David and Steve discuss what exactly constitutes hyperinflation as well as historical examples of hyperinflation from 1940s Hungary to present-day Venezuela. David\\u2019s blog: http://macromarketmusings.blogspot.com/ Steve Hanke\\u2019s Cato profile: https://www.cato.org/people/steve-hanke David\\u2019s Twitter: @DavidBeckworth Steve Hanke\\u2019s Twitter: @steve_hanke Related links: Venezuela Enters the Record Book: the 57th Entry in the Hanke-Krus World Hyperinflation Table (contains full list of world hyperinflations) https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/articles/hanke-sae-december-2016.pdf'