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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1023729, member: 57463&quot;]Do not confuse &quot;the country&quot; with &quot;the government.&quot;&nbsp; Inflation like that happens when the government is broke: they have no more assets.&nbsp; In the case of Germany, they lost all of their gold to the Allies who made them pay for the cost of World War I.&nbsp; In the case of Zimbabwe, they have no tax income because the government destroyed the economy by chasing out (or allowing to be killed) the most productive people.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I am sure that the survivors used whatever currency was available -- and I saw reports of people panning for gold in streams where a a tenth of a gram would buy food for the day.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>But what does the government use to pay the troops and bureau workers?&nbsp; Where does the government get revenue?</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, suffering the same inflation after World War I, but not being totally looted by the Allies, Austria borrowed gold and restabilized its currency.&nbsp; That was a benefit of having Austrian economists close at hand when they were needed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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