When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany Classics_Gift_Guide she uncovers a diary written

she uncovers a diary written by an adolescent girl named Maude Gower

interspersing probabilistic mind-benders with portraits of theorists

Reminiscent of Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow’s Mommy’s Khimar

a reminder that events big and small can have a moment of culinary gratitude

When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany Classics_Gift_Guide she uncovers a diary writtenThe classic history of the political and economic devastation wrought by runaway inflation in Weimar Germanybrilliant (Guardian) In 1923, with its currency effectively worthless (the exchange rate in December of that year was one dollar to 4,200,000,000,000 marks), the German republic was all but reduced to a barter economy. Expensive cigars, artworks, and jewels were routinely exchanged for staples such as bread; a cinema ticket could be bought for a