In the early 1920s, the value of the papiermark (the native currency of the Weimar Republic of Germany) lost almost all of its purchasing power, causing tremendous instability within Weimar for many ...

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 ...

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. There is a specter ...

Ever since the financial crisis first hit, it hasn't been hard to find people warning that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is about to trigger a raging bout of hyperinflation in the United ...

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 ...

There is some disagreement over when the word “jawboning” first entered the English language. Some believe that its initial use characterized Herbert Hoover’s attempt to convince employers to maintain ...

Janet Yellen, chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, gives her semiannual monetary policy report to the House Financial Services Committee in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Opponents of European Central Bank intervention to bail out the eurozone consistently cite Germany's experiences with hyperinflation in the early ...