Gold and Silver: Lessons From Weimar Germany. May 18, 2006 2:26 PM ET 1 Like. The Silver Analyst. 309 Followers. Follow. Roland Watson (The New Era Investor) submits: Most readers will be familiar ...

Remember, gold and silver are traded internationally, not just in Weimar Germany. There is NO evidence that gold/silver ratio reached any unusually high numbers. It stays at 16:1 in USA, for example.

On Sept. 26, 1923, in the midst of hyperinflationary chaos, he suspended seven articles of the Weimar constitution, ... The hyperinflation was over, and Germany was back on a gold standard system.

New charts vividly illustrate the staggering ascent of precious metals during the period of catastrophic hyperinflation which brought Weimar Germany to its knees in the early 1920's. Copper $ 5. ...

Germany’s central bank will relocate 54,000 solid gold bars, worth about $36 billion, from deep underneath the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Banque de France in Paris to the safe ...

Harald Jähner’s “Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany” and Frank McDonough’s “The Weimar Years: Rise and Fall 1918-1933” examine the era through different lenses. But both ...

With Trump back in office, Germany’s Taxpayers Federation has voiced its renewed unease over the safety of the country’s gold held at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Germany’s 3,352 ...

At the left you see a one billion Mark note that was among the last printed notes of the Weimar Republic which saw the dreadful hyperinflation from the war’s end to August 1923. At the right was ...

Some of the events which lead to Weimar’s hyperinflation bear a striking similarity to events happening today. To me, the most striking similarity is the rate of growth (expansion) in money printing ...

U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris (L) speaks during a moderated conversation with former US Representative Liz Cheney at Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the ...

Germany abandoned the gold backing of its currency in 1914. The war was expected to be short, so it was financed by government borrowing, ... The Weimar Republic was politically fragile.

Germany, as is well known now, had a hyperinflation from 1919 to 1923. At the end, the mark was worth one trillionth of its original value. Afterwards, the new German mark was pegged to gold, at ...