[cynwoody]

An interesting link in this regard:

https://keripeardon.wordpress.com/2013/06/01/wheelbarrows-of-money-and-the-weimar-republic/

From the link:

“My father was a lawyer,” says Walter Levy, an internationally known German-born oil consultant in New York, “and he had taken out an insurance policy in 1903, and every month he had made the payments faithfully. It was a 20-year policy, and when it came due, he cashed it in and bought a single loaf of bread.”

We all know what became of Germany in the years following the Weimar inflation. Fortunately, I don't think we need to fear a similar blowback from Venezuela. It's that mañana culture, dontcha know! Internal threats are more urgent.

[kearnyirish2]

The stories from Weimar Germany were incredible; getting paid twice a day so you could shop at lunchtime to avoid the price increases of the next few hours, prices changing on menus while you ate...

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

And to think, in 1915, one of the best investments Wall Street offered was Imperial German War Bonds for American investors.