Opponents of European Central Bank intervention to bail out the eurozone consistently cite Germany's experiences with hyperinflation in the early 1920s as a reason that the bank can not or should not ...

Too few understand just how disruptive hyperinflation in America would be. Truth is, it would be a nightmare. In an episode of hyperinflation, money loses value so rapidly that people spend it as ...

U.S. government finances might look Zimbabwe-esque, but a look back at some of history's worst hyperinflation episodes show why goldbugs' fears are completely unfounded now. RonPaul.jpg There is a ...

Weimar Germany after World War One went through one of the worst hyperinflations in history, unleashing untold horrors on the German people and their economy. Memories of Weimar still haunt the ...

In November 1923, there were 4,210,500,000,000 German marks to the dollar. 4.2 trillion. In lay economics, 1 : 4.2 trillion equals worthless. Such a ruinous currency devaluation exacts steep psychic ...

Almost two thousand years before the early 1920s Weimar Germany hyperinflation, there was the great currency debasement of the Roman Empire. At the turn of the second century, the Roman Empire ...