"When the inflation was at its worst, they used to change prices in the supermarkets three times a day," Yuan Kae-sheng's wife recalls. "The clerks were worn out just sticking on the labels."
「巴幣貶值嚴重的時候，超級市場一日三價，售貨小姐光忙著換貼價格標籤就累壞了」，袁國聲的太太如此形容；而報社的國際電傳費、印刷費，乃至華裔員工薪水，付的卻是貨真價實的美金。