Loads of money

Article Abstract:

Germany was hit by hyperinflation in 1923, the most spectauclar episode to affect a developed economy, though there was also hyperinflation in Shanghai in 1949, and Argentina in 1989. The German government funded the 1914-1919 war and subsequent reparations through printing money. German default on reparations payments was followed by the occupation of the Ruhr in 1923, and this triggered both unemployment and inflation. This episode was one factor that favored the rise of Adolf Hitler, and the usage of Jews as scapegoats for German economic problems.

Prices, Germany, 1920s (Decade) AD

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A short history of inflation

Article Abstract:

Most people today assume inflation is an economic fact of life, as prices have risen constantly since 1933. A look at price movements from 1661 in Britain and 1820 in Germany and the US show something else. Before 1933, prices in Britain and the US fell more than they rose.

Analysis, Economic history

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The long and short of it

Article Abstract:

Human growth hormone (somatotropin) and artificial equivalents may be used to make short people a little taller. Researchers have also studied it's use in making excessively tall people shorter.

Care and treatment, Research, Usage, Somatotropin, Stature, Body height, Dwarfism

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