<p>Argentina's inflation rate hit 40% in 2014, making it one of the countries with the highest inflation rate in the world<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. </span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It's really hard to understand what that actually means to people's daily lives, though, unless you've got a good illustration.</span></p><p>Luckily, <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/conzpreti/solo-necesitas-esta-imagen-para-explicar-la-devaluacion-arge#.jaOmQMOpB">Conz  </a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/conzpreti/solo-necesitas-esta-imagen-para-explicar-la-devaluacion-arge#.jaOmQMOpB">Preti over at BuzzFeed</a> handed us this one. Here are two Argentine ads, one for a Volvo in 2001 and another for a Samsung Galaxy in 2015. They're almost the same price.</span></p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/55534bff6da8110662e8a31c-627-367/screen shot 2015-05-13 at 8.40.43 am.png?maxX=769&amp;maxY=450" border="0" alt="argentina inflation volvo samsung" width="769" height="450"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/conzpreti/solo-necesitas-esta-imagen-para-explicar-la-devaluacion-arge#.jaOmQMOpB">Conz Preti, BuzzFeed</a></span></p></img></div><p></p></div></p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/time-saving-formatting-shortcuts-excel-microsoft-spreadsheet-2015-4">6 shortcuts in Excel that will save you a ton of time</a></h3>        <div>            <div>    <script src="http://player.ooyala.com/v3/6e12e8b3387a44daacfb73afba25a76e"></script>    <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="s2eWVycTpB8W04mVKP6-rNgKfb8IFiF_" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>    <script>    if (typeof RunFunctions === 'undefined') { var RunFunctions = []; }     RunFunctions.push(function()    {         var ooyalapopvideo = OO.Player.create('ooyalaplayer_popvideo', 's2eWVycTpB8W04mVKP6-rNgKfb8IFiF_',{ autoplay: 'false' });     });    </script>    <noscript><div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div></noscript></div>        </div>        <script>(function() { function createPlayer() { OO.ready(function() { RunFunctions.forEach(function(ooyalaFunction) { ooyalaFunction(); }); RunFunctions = [];}); } createPlayer(); }()); </script>    </div>

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The only picture you need to see to understand why inflation in Argentina is so insane

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Argentinas inflation rate hit 40 in 2014, making it one of the countries with the highest inflation rate in the world.  Its really hard to understand what that actually means to peoples daily lives, though, unless youve got a good illustration.

The only picture you need to see to understand why inflation in Argentina is so insane

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