For more than a decade economists in the developed world have been left wondering; what ever happened to inflation? Now it's become fashionable in some circles to predict hyperinflation. Jack Dorsey, ...

The greatest trick the government ever pulled was convincing the world that inflation was a good thing. Over the course of history, dozens of once-prosperous nations have collapsed under the pressure ...

HYPERINFLATION is among the worst catastrophes that can befall an economy. It can destroy output and destabilise societies. The hoarding of real assets, such as property and precious metals, wrecks ...

The Germans are the financially righteous nation, the finger-waggers at the improvident Greeks and, on occasion, at the Americans. Germans are that way because of their cultural memory of the great ...

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 ...

Germany, as is well known now, had a hyperinflation from 1919 to 1923. At the end, the mark was worth one trillionth of its original value. Afterwards, the new German mark was pegged to gold, at its ...

In 2006, Zimbabwe experienced one of the most severe cases of hyperinflation in recorded history. The economy was unstable, with many of the country’s citizens unable to provide for their families.