Die Einzahlungen und Bürgschaften im Rahmen des Europäischen Stabilisierungsmechanismus (ESM) führen zu einer starken Belastung der soliden Euroländer – ob das Kapital überhaupt ausreicht, ist zudem nicht sicher. Sinnvoller wäre es, nicht die Staatsschulden in den Fokus zu nehmen,...

The article treats the history of Germany’s Great Inflation from 1914 to 1923. It focusses on explaining the turning points of wholesale price trends. It demonstrates that these were mostly triggered by national and international political decisions immediately impacting the mark exchange...

Germany’s hyperinflation resulted from a confluence of several factors, all of which contributed to a temporary breakdown in state capacity and to unsustainable public sector deficits. Wartime debt deflated by 90% already in 1920. Informal wage indexation and failure to enforce collection of a...

The German hyperinflation in 1923 was caused by monetary financing of the highly deficient German state budget by a de-pendent central bank. The social and economic consequences of the hyperinflation were disastrous. Combined with an instable politi-cal atmosphere, paving the way for the rise of...