A misallocation of labor and capital occurs throughout the economy. A hyperinflation merely takes the same consequences to a more destructive extreme. Money approaches worthlessness. People spend with a frenzy just to get rid of the cash in their pockets. Life-long savings lose their value in a matter of days.
Individuals desperately try to juggle their assets just to maintain their savings.
Trade becomes more difficult or even impossible, through normal channels of exchange. Finally, the social division of labor itself is threatened with collapse as monetary transactions become the avenue for economic losses rather than profits. Hyperinflatiom continued to the bitter end, means the end of the social and economic order. Brazil is on the edge of hyperinflation. Last October, I had the opportunity to lecture in five Brazilian cities, including Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.