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...government policies. So it depends on what the government does. But the people who have been fighting to stop the rampant printing of money are gone. The people who are now in power have very little self-control. The central-bank governor is a huge fan of the rapid printing of money. The restraints to inflation that existed before are gone. In Ukraine, where there has been a reform-communist government like this in power for two years, the inflation rate is 100% a month...
...years, an episode known as the Younger Dryas period. The periodic "spikes" of warmer weather that have interrupted ice ages and the cold weather that often came on suddenly in the last interglacial period are also impossible to explain with astronomy. And so is the astonishingly rapid changeover from warm to cold...
Harvard uses a rapid earthquake analysis system developed here to collect world-wide earthquake data automatically...
Sachs, a chief proponent of "shock therapy," an economic strategy that calls for the rapid transition of former communist countries from planned to market economics, had served as an advisor to Russian President Boris Yeltsin since December...
...rapid price inflation? Why did the Clintons and the McDougals pay twice the price paid by 101 River? Why was the price increased almost 25% a year later? The only explanation available, and a not fully satisfying one, comes from James Patterson Jr., who was involved in several ways: he was secretary of 101 River Development, which sold the land to the Clintons and McDougals, and also president of Citizens Bank and Trust in the tiny Arkansas town of Flippin, which loaned money to 101 to buy the land and later advanced a $182,611 mortgage loan to Whitewater...