LATE-STAGE SOCIALISM: In Venezuela, inflation quadruples to 18,000 percent in two months, with no end in sight.

The 17,968 percent rate registered at the end of April already surpassed the 13,864 percent rate predicted by the International Monetary Fund for all of 2018.

“What we’re seeing at this point is a giant jump in inflation,” Steve Hanke, a professor at Johns Hopkins University and one of the world’s top experts on inflation, told el Nuevo Herald.

“And it could go much higher than what we’re seeing today,” added Hanke, who calculated the 17,968 percent figure. He keeps a daily record of inflation in Venezuela.

The only thing socialists never run out of is zeroes — oh, and excuses.