After the German Empire lost the First World War and the Kaiser abdicated, the newly established Weimar Republic lingered in an incredibly unstable and chaotic situation. Both the far left and far ...

President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a Jan. 6 rally in Washington before the crowd moved on to storm the Capitol. Jacquelyn Martin AP The short-lived Weimar Republic (1919-1933) in Germany has ...

Excerpt from Paper Money by "Adam Smith," (George J.W. Goodman), pp. 57-62. Before World War I Germany was a prosperous country, with a gold-backed currency, expanding industry, and world leadership ...

The US raised taxes and shrank money supply from 1930 to 1932. But from 1919 to 1923, Weimar Germany ran deficits and bloated money supply with negative real interest rates. That sounds familiar. Then ...

Historian Ullrich (Eight Days in May) argues in this comprehensive chronicle of a tumultuous year in German history that the Weimar Republic was “not condemned to failure from its onset.” Significant ...

A fragile democracy, the Weimar Republic, briefly took hold in Germany before the Nazis seized power. Now, Weimar’s collapse is seen as a warning. The German National Theater in Weimar, Germany, where ...

Facsimile of the original German edition of 2000. (There were also 300 in English, and 300 in Russian.) ...

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 ...