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Supply shocks can lead to inflation, but hyperinflation seems to always result from bad monetary policy (specifically, money printing). To prove this point, all hyperinflation episodes have taken place on fiat currency. Usually, the bad monetary policies are a response to general chaos in the economy, but the policies themselves seem to create the hyperinflation.

I'm not an expert, but this is my conclusion from reading the article.



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