Hyperinflation
Well it is when prices are going up extremely quickly, so it really is hyper-inflation, as in very fast inflation. It can also be called runaway inflation and when you consider that it usually describes conditions where prices are rising by around a half in an extraordinary short period of time - about a month - you can see why it is called runaway.
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