Economic mismanagement led to a large black market, runaway inflation and food shortages.
It's hard to see where you get runaway inflation with that going on.
Or will the Government try to square the circle by simply printing the money it needs, creating runaway inflation?
But the country went through a period of rapid economic decline and runaway inflation after independence.
National health insurance is out of the question, an invitation to "runaway inflation."
In an effort to fight runaway inflation, Iraq decided last week to invalidate its 25-dinar note.
And years of runaway inflation meant stores were able to offer few affordable payment plans.
Many officials here note that Germany has not forgotten the runaway inflation of the 1920's.
In the early 1990's, Jamaica suffered runaway inflation, with prices rising at one time by 80 percent a year.
In the 1970s and 1980s we allowed runaway inflation.