A 5 pound chicken costs 14,600,000 bolivars in Venezuela. How do you solve this problem of needing such huge amount of cash, can you solve it by just making a new currency with less zeros?

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Answer 1

When you have hyperinflation like that, what usually winds up happening is that people start trading (sometimes illegally) in a more stable currency.