On monthly trips to his native Venezuela, Miguel Octavio
heads to the same restaurant for the cornmeal cakes he enjoyed as a boy known
as arepas, which are a staple here. The price, however, is never the same. Over
nine months, the Miami-based financial analyst and blogger has recorded a
fourfold increase in what he calls his Hyperinflated Arepa Index, a yardstick
he created to trace soaring consumer prices in this economically crippled
country. More…
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