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Buenos Aires barber’s books: A chronicle of 19,900% inflation

Buenos Aires barber’s books: A chronicle of 19,900% inflation

In a small barbershop in Buenos Aires, the hand-written entries in the two dozen notebooks – date, haircut, price – chronicle decades of a Buenos Aires barber’s working life. But they tell another story too, Argentina’s most important: a tale of 19,900% inflation and its crippling impact. In his shop with sandy wooden floorboards and...