Over the past week, almost half the world was filled with despair, a week of despair that even the ongoing global economic crisis had not caused such widespread economic depression before.
All countries' currencies had devalued to a pitiful extent, with Venezuela's past dire situation almost being crazily repeated across these 89 countries.
To cope with this situation, their money-printing machines had started working nonstop, and even the paper and ink used for printing money had become national-level strategic materials.
But even so, the speed at which they printed money still couldn't keep up with the pace of currency devaluation and inflation.
In some countries, people even needed to carry baskets to the markets to buy vegetables and use suitcases and cars to transport salaries.
Even the US dollar, which had been the world's reserve currency, had continued to fall to two-thirds of its original value before barely stabilizing.
