Forty years ago, we beat the inflation specter with a wage sacrifice. Do we have to hand in salary again to stop inflation?

Inflation has not been this high since 1982, they say. What was that for a year? What are the similarities, is there a difference? About how money rolls, then and now.

Rows of cash registers and customers in the ‘hypermarket’ Miro, around 1982. These king-size superstores, which in addition to supermarket products (daily groceries) also sold department store items (non-daily things), were also called meadow shops. Miro had offices in Assen and Leeuwarden. PHOTO ANP Spaarnestad

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