In retrospect, you can trace the steps to hyperinflation ... of the Ruhr and of the province of Upper Silesia. The Weimar Republic was politically fragile. But the bourgeois habits were very ...

two thirds of which could be postponed each year if necessary Amount of time over which they would be paid The years 1924 to 1929 have been referred to as Weimar’s ‘Golden Years’, but ...

They also happen from extreme mismanagement, from the Weimar Republic in the 1920s to the South American episodes in the 1980s and 1990s, or Venezuela and Zimbabwe more recently. Remember that the ...

Stacks of Venezuelan bolivar notes worth $1.45 on 16 August, just enough to buy 1kg of meat Venezuelans are living through one of the worst hyperinflation episodes ever recorded since the end of ...