Venezuela Braces for Runaway Inflation As Merchants Weigh Mountains of Cash Instead Of Counting ItBy Mac Slavo As the South American nations paper currency continues to lose value with each passing day, the people of Venezuela are forced to carry piles of cash just to buy basic goods and services with many merchants now literally weighing the next-to-worthless cash rather than wasting time to count it. Clearly, this does not bode well. Venezuela continues to repeat the mistakes of other failed states as its currency comes dangerously close to all-out hyperinflation, as has happened in Zimbabwe and Weimar Republic Germany. Via the UK Independent: 