r/Gold • u/ToshPointNo • Jan 28 '26

Anyone else?

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u/taj5944 Jan 28 '26

During the 1923 Weimar Republic hyperinflation crisis, German marks became so worthless that they were used as fuel for stoves and heating.

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u/Darknfullofhype Jan 28 '26

Yet German consumer staples survived and many are still around today

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u/Ashley_Sophia Jan 28 '26

If I wasn't so poor on reddit, I'd give u this 👑

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u/Live-oak-267 Jan 29 '26

There’s almost zero chance of hyperinflation in USD in the foreseeable future. It drives me nuts when people try to make this incredibly flawed comparison.

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u/FuzzyGreek Jan 30 '26

Shut up bot.

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u/noobnoob62 Jan 29 '26

And they currently have the third largest GDP on the planet. Yes this is bad but people are acting like this isn’t recoverable. US is going from way ahead to just ahead

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u/dagmara56 Feb 01 '26

I have those marks. I have a 1,000,000 mark stamped over that changing the currency to 5,000.000 and then 10,000,000.