by John Rubino
Dollar Collapse
Almost alone among the world’s serious nations, Germany has scenes like this within living memory:
[…] During the 1923 Weimar Republic hyperinflation, newly-destitute Germans burned their life savings to keep warm or carted wheelbarrows of cash to stores to buy bread and milk. This wipe-out of an entire generation’s wealth led directly to Hitler and WWII, arguably the two dumbest mistakes made by any country ever.
So these guys understand the threat of a dying currency better than perhaps anyone else. Which must make what’s happening now especially intense. Here’s Germany’s current inflation rate: