This year's hot weather is history - the days are getting shorter and we are spending more and more time at home. Doesn't that sound like the perfect scenario to spend your evenings with a book? The number one topic of recent months has been [...]

When Money Dies, The True Nightmare of Hyperinflation is surely engaging, shocking in places, but above all, instructive. Although the events described in it took place in the interwar period, [...]

In 1923, when the German currency became practically worthless, the Weimar Republic almost reverted to a barter economy. Expensive cigars, works of art and jewels were routinely exchanged for staples [...]