The Salvation Army serves hungry Berliners in the dark days of 1923

The Dangers of Printing Money

The Fed's doing it. The Bank of England says it plans to do it, too. With printing money (or as they say today, "quantitative easing") back in fashion, TIME reflects on Germany's efforts in the 1920s — and the crisis that followed.

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