Although the German hyperinflation of the 1920s has faded from the memory of all but historians and economists, it might be worth revisiting given the inflation that continues in the U.S. healthcare ...

Brian M. Carney, in his Oct. 1 editorial-page piece "Teutonic Tailspin: A German Market's Rise and Fall," speaks of Germany's "hyperinflation of the 1920s and 1930s." There was hyperinflation in ...

British historian Taylor (Dresden) adds to a solid body of work on 20th-century Germany with this chilling account of the human face of hyperinflation in the 1920s Weimar Republic. Many blame the ...

The more things change the more they stay the same; our modern inflationary currencies are beginning to mirror that of Weimar. In the early 1920s, the value of the papiermark (the native currency of ...