Financial

Weimar and Wall Street – Robert Blumen

February 18, 2022 0

02/17/2022 Robert Blumen What is the relationship between Weimar Germany and Wall St. of the late 90s? On the surface, what could be more different? Stock market booms are the best of times while hyperinflation […]

Wealth Abuse

The Monetary Lessons From Germany

November 1, 2019 0

Germany suffered two currency collapses in the last century, in 1920-23 and 1945-48. The architect of the recovery from the former, Hjalmar Schacht, chose to cooperate with the Nazi successors to the Weimar Republic, and […]

Commentary

The End of the Great Experiment

October 14, 2016 0

BY BRIAN MAHER If necessity is the mother of invention, the crisis of 2008 mothered an invention for the ages. QE, ZIRP, NIRP and half the alphabet were drafted into the Manhattan Project of monetary […]