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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Warns Hyperinflation Will Soon Happen in US and the World

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Warns Hyperinflation Will Soon Happen in US and the World

Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey has warned that hyperinflation will soon happen in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world. “Hyperinflation is going to change everything. It’s happening,” he predicted. Many people disagreed with him, however.

US Will Soon Experience Hyperinflation, Says Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey

The CEO of Twitter and Square Inc., Jack Dorsey, tweeted a warning about hyperinflation in the U.S. Friday. “Hyperinflation is going to change everything. It’s happening,” he wrote.

Comments flooded his tweet. At the time of writing, it had garnered more than 7K comments and had been liked 70.1K times and retweeted 22.9K times. In a follow-up tweet, Dorsey emphasized: “It will happen in the U.S. soon, and so the world.”

The Twitter CEO’s tweet came as consumer price inflation is running near a 30-year high in the U.S. and there are increasing concerns that the problem could be worse than what policymakers led on. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell acknowledged Friday that inflation pressures “are likely to last longer than previously expected,” and could run “well into next year.”

However, many people disagreed with the Twitter boss that hyperinflation is going to happen in the U.S. Patrick Horan, program manager for Monetary Policy at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, opined: “In the United States, hyperinflation is not happening.” His colleague, Lawrence White, professor of economics at the same university, chimed in: “What’s happening is higher inflation, not hyperinflation (except in Venezuela). It’s too bad that Twitter doesn’t allow Jack to edit his tweet.”

Daniel Drezner, professor at Tufts University’s Fletcher School, noted: “I lived through actual hyperinflation in Ukraine in the early 1990s. This ain’t it mate.”

Economist Steve Hanke, a bitcoin skeptic who prides himself as an expert on inflation and hyperinflation, commented:

There have been 62 certified hyperinflations in world history. At present, no country is experiencing hyperinflation. Jack should know better than to tweet irresponsible public statements.

While a number of people on Twitter disagreed with Hanke’s statement, Dorsey simply replied with a “rolling on the floor laughing” emoji.

Some people heeded Dorsey’s warning, tweeting, “Thank God for bitcoin,” noting that BTC will inevitably become the world’s reserve currency.

Alex Gladstein, chief strategy officer at the Human Rights Foundation, commented on Dorsey’s hyperinflation tweet:

Those shocked by this tweet live in a bubble of financial privilege. 1.3 billion live under double, triple, or quadruple-digit inflation: Turkey, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Iran, Lebanon, Venezuela, Cuba, Sudan, and beyond. It’s already one of the world’s biggest humanitarian crises.

What do you think about Jack Dorsey’s hyperinflation warning? Let us know in the comments section below.

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