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[[File:Zimbabwe $100 trillion 2009 Obverse.jpg|thumb|2009 Zimbabwe $100 trillion banknote. At the peak of Zimbabwe’s hyperinflation in November 2008, prices in Zimbabwe were doubling every 24 hours.]]
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[[File:Zimbabwe $100 trillion 2009 Obverse.jpg|thumb|<translate>2009 Zimbabwe $100 trillion banknote. At the peak of Zimbabwe’s hyperinflation in November 2008, prices in Zimbabwe were doubling every 24 hours.</translate>]]


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Historically, '''inflation''' was defined as any increase in the quantity of money, other than an increase from a switch in the money commodity (that is [[gold]]) from nonmonetary uses to monetary uses. Inflation resulted from new discoveries or mining of gold or artificial creation of additional quantities of the media of exchange.  
Historically, '''inflation''' was defined as any increase in the quantity of money, other than an increase from a switch in the money commodity (that is [[gold]]) from nonmonetary uses to monetary uses. Inflation resulted from new discoveries or mining of gold or artificial creation of additional quantities of the media of exchange.  


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Elizabeth Clare Prophet, ''Prophecy for the 1980s''.
Elizabeth Clare Prophet, ''Prophecy for the 1980s''.
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