I can't raise my prices 'cause of Cheyenne's price freeze.

There are price freezes on certain subsidized goods andservices, and rising inflation makes these subsidies even moreexpensive for the government.

At the same time, there was a wage and price freeze, an endto the Federal Reserve’s swap network of support for other centralbanks, and a limitation of gold transactions, implying a reductionin the value of the American currency.

They consisted mainly of price freezes that were not anchored in fiscal and monetary policy fundamentals, nor did they address problems of the indexation of wages and other prices to inflation. This resulted in a misalignment of various prices and allowed inflationary pressures to build up, eventually surfacing in a spiral of near hyperinflation in the early years of the 1990s.