hyperinflation

The reason is probably the prelude to the rise of Hitler, which was marked by hyperinflation from printing too much money.

The national socialists came to power as a consequence of the severe deflation in the 1930s, not the hyperinflation 10 years earlier.

Fears of hyperinflation still seem to exist out there even though we went through a brief deflationary period.

After the deflation, hyperinflation isn't out of the question if governments give up on credit money and just start spending freshly printed cash.

Detroit might become cool, which will bring real estate hyperinflation.

What makes you think hyperinflation is a realistic outcome?

Mainstream Austrians isn't really a category, but this is people who make arguments based on analogies with household budgets, and worry about hyperinflation from out of control spending.

Before my father was born, his family lived in Germany and because they had their wealth in US dollars, they were spared the trauma of the German hyperinflation of the 20s.

For example 90% of the population has been permanently kicked out of big city coastal real estate and will never, ever, live there or own property there via hyperinflation in real estate prices.

> WW2 was caused in no small part by the Wall St Crash, which was a direct cause of hyperinflation in Germany Could you please clarify how the Crash of '29 caused hyperinflation in Germany in the early 1920's?

WW2 was caused in no small part by the Wall St Crash, which was a direct cause of hyperinflation in Germany, and by delusional industrialists who thought that financing Hitler would be a good way to avoid a revolution.

Numerous economic crises, whether depressions or hyperinflation can be traced through ancient times - the 3rd century fall of the Roman empire (hyperinflation), the various Italian banking crises in the 14th and 15th centuries, Tulip mania, panics and depressions through the 1700s and 1800s, leading to the failure of the Gold standard (the ultimate hard money backstop) in the Great Depression....

If Greece were to come out with a new brand of money, say the "Greco", I would be extremely suspicious of holding any for fear of hyperinflation/a new currency coming out in 3 years to replace the debts taken on in Greco.

Hyperinflation is almost impossible in a highly leveraged credit economy, but cheap money has to go somewhere.

Hyperinflation is the nerdocalypse for those who don't believe in Keynesian economics, but comparisons with Zimbabwe or the Weimar Republic are absurd and overblown.

Hyperinflation makes no sense for the US because there is no harder currency that can easily displace the dollar, and there are vast numbers of valuable assets which are most easily purchased in dollars here in the US as far as our external creditors are concerned.