Flint Michigan residents charged $150 a month for poisoned water

[SteelCrysis]

Wow, Ben committed one helluva clusterfuck.

That wildly inaccurate lie ended up being the main catalyst for the creation and rise of a political party in the 20th century, the National Socialist German Workers Party.

Bullshit. The Weimar German economy broke out of hyperinflation thanks to Hjalmar Schacht's economic genius. What actually happened was Great Depression + bunch of idiots appointing Hitler and thinking they could control him.

That was the intent of Weimar policy. Excessive debt and creation of new currency have proven to be the most destructive economic policy the world has ever seen. It wasn't done to bolster the wealthy, it was an attempt to save the working class and the government itself. If you want to call the results of that sound economic policy......

No, it was paying off severe debt from the Treaty of Versailles, although at least one French guy made the claim that they faked it all to try to get out of paying reparations and Germany was perfectly capable of paying.

You seriously want to use Germany's post WW1 debt problem and Hitlers "solution" to it as a valid example of how, rational, legitimate and compassionate goverments set monetary policy (or anything else)?!

You are a fucking pathetic troll, worse than Rollo, dragging Hitler and his "government" and early 20th century genrmany into this conversation!  That is NOT how 99.999% percent of the world operated nor is it how 99.999% of the world operates now!

You were voicing your support for what has *PROVEN* to be the poorest economic policy in the history of the world. I helped a student work on a masters thesis for this subject not too long ago. You want to play boy? You are out of your fucking league.

Explain how Germany recovered from hyperinflation and went on to have some economic prosperity before the Great Depression hit them.

What I described above is the way every last major economy in the world has worked for at least the last century!

Germany's war era fuckups are not a valid example of how FIAT currency works!

Seriously, what the hell is up with you and your German obsession?!  You drag it into everything and are worse the SteelCrysis with it!

Absolutely, and the biggest act of idiocy they did was causing hyperinflation.

Wrong. It was appointing Hitler to be Chancellor and thinking he was controllable.