Case studies
Real events, what ordinary people did, and what they could have done better. Coming next: the Great Depression, WWII rationing, the 1970s gas lines, Sarajevo, Cuba and Venezuela.
Case study: Weimar Germany, 1923. When money stopped working
Before World War I, a US dollar bought about 4.2 German marks. By the end of 1923 it bought 4.2 trillion. Prices rose so fast that a cafe bill could climb while you drank your coffee.