How does a new currency stop inflation?

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Apparently, every time a currency falls victim to hyper inflation, sooner or later the country is gonna introduce a new currency to solve the problem.

But how does that help? If let’s say the us dollar lost 90% of it’s value every day, and you introduced a new currency, one of which is equal to 5 us dollars, wouldn’t that new currency, as it’s value is bound to the dollar, instantly lose 90% of it’s value every day as well?

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It doesn’t.

But once you have hyperinflation you can’t possibly use the old money anymore because it’s all junked up. So whatever else you do has to include making new money to start over.

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