{"id":626,"date":"2004-02-13T05:35:16","date_gmt":"2004-02-13T10:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/02\/inflation\/"},"modified":"2004-02-13T05:35:16","modified_gmt":"2004-02-13T10:35:16","slug":"inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/inflation\/","title":{"rendered":"Inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;ncid=1203&#038;e=10&#038;u=\/afp\/20040212\/bs_afp\/zimbabwe_economy&#038;sid=96001027\">got it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Zimbabwe&#8217;s official rate of inflation, which dropped 20.8 points in December, came in at a new high of 622.8 percent in January compared with the year earlier, according to government statistics.<br \/>\nThe Central Statistical Office (CSO) figures showed that the rate of inflation jumped 24.1 points from 598.7 percent in December. In November inflation had stood at 619.5 percent.<br \/>\nThe rate remains one of the highest in the world, translating to almost three times the January 2003 rate of 208.1 percent.<br \/>\nFormer Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa in November predicted the southern African country&#8217;s inflation rate would hit 700 percent in the first three months of this year before climbing down. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve got all you&#8217;re money in fixed-rate Zimbabwe bonds (if there is such a thing), you&#8217;re probably not fairing so well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/inflation\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Inflation\"><p>Zimbabwe&#8217;s got it: Zimbabwe&#8217;s official rate of inflation, which dropped 20.8 points in December, came in at a new high of 622.8 percent in January compared with the year earlier, according to government statistics. The Central Statistical Office (CSO) figures showed that the rate of inflation jumped 24.1 points from 598.7 percent in December. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}