The Country Where Prices Doubled Every 34 Hours

In 1993, one European country lived through the third-worst hyperinflation ever recorded. Prices doubled roughly every 34 hours. Wages paid in the morning couldn't buy lunch. The government printed a 500,000,000,000-dinar note — and it still bought almost nothing. This is the story of how a modern European currency died in a matter of weeks: how it happened, who paid for it, and the 74-year-old economist who stopped it almost overnight. Episode 1 of "Could It Happen In Your Country?" — a series on how money dies, and who profits when it does. CHAPTERS 0:00 Could it happen in your country? 0:58 A country where prices doubled every 34 hours 1:51 How the money started dying 3:04 The mechanism: printing without limit 4:13 Life inside a collapsing currency 5:47 The peak — 313,000,000% a month 6:46 The twist: two banks promised 15% a month 8:13 The man who killed hyperinflation 10:19 Could it happen where you live? Episode 2 — How Two Bankers Robbed a Nation (15% a Month): coming soon SOURCES (full list in the pinned comment) Petrovic, Bogetic & Vujosevic — "The Yugoslav Hyperinflation of 1992-1994" (Journal of Comparative Economics) Steve H. Hanke & Nicholas Krus — "World Hyperinflations" (Cato Institute) Dragoslav Avramovic — biography (Wikipedia) ABOUT THE VISUALS This is an independent educational documentary. The events are historical and drawn from the records above. Because almost no free archival footage of this period exists, most people and interiors are AI-assisted reconstructions — not real photographs — shown alongside genuine archival banknote scans and on-screen data graphics. Nothing in this video is financial advice. Subscribe — "Could It Happen In Your Country?" — new stories on how money dies. #hyperinflation #financialhistory #yugoslavia #currencycollapse #economics