Sound familiar?

[MustangGal]

This is in my history book, I thought it sounded frighteningly familiar...

So the Confederacy had to pay about 60 percent of its [war] expenses by printing paper money. The flood of currency created a spectacular inflation: By 1865, prices had risen to ninety-two times their 1861 level. As the vast supply of money (and shortage of goods) caused food prices to soar, riots broke out in more than a dozen southern cities and towns. In Richmond, several hundred women broke into bakeries, crying, "Our Children are starving while the rich roll in wealth."...Facing a public that feared strong government and high taxation, the Confederacy could sustain the war effort only by seizing its citizens' property.

I cut out a section in the middle about citizens seizing a government warehouse and refusing to accept paper currency.

[Matt In Oklahoma]

[QUOTE=MustangGal;15326]This is in my history book, I thought it sounded frighteningly familiar...
Along with Argentena, Germany pre war along with a few other places

[Lowdown3]

Coming soon to a country near you...

[Proud Grandma]

we have to learn from our mistakes not keep making the same ones.

[antishot]

Now we need to wait.