Warnings about runaway prices are back in the headlines, and "hyperinflation" has become a favorite word for pundits and ...

Early in 1922, the German Papiermark—the currency of the Weimar Republic—was valued at around 200 Marks to the U.S. dollar. By November 1923, that figure had risen to 4,200,000,000,000. Put another ...

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 ...

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, ...