A minimum-wage worker in Venezuela could afford 5 cups of coffee each month -- and nothing else

Five million Venezuelan bolivars is the equivalent of $1.45. It's also roughly a minimum-wage worker's entire monthly salary in the South American country. Thanks to stunning inflation, it now takes 1 million bolivars to buy a cup of coffee in a Venezuelan cafe, Bloomberg reports. That's one-fifth of Venezuela's monthly minimum wage, and 10,000-bill stack of Venezuela's most common bank note, the 100-bolivar bill. To illustrate Venezuela's rampant inflation, Bloomberg has tracked the price of a ...