1923 Ruhr occupation German money printing hyperinflation

Printing money for Ruhr strikers fueled hyperinflation

During France and Belgium’s 1923 occupation of Germany’s Ruhr industrial region, the German government printed money to support striking workers and businesses that had stopped working. The policy helped fuel the hyperinflation that wiped out many German savers’ savings.

Simple survivors made recovery after a mass extinction look faster than it was

After the Permian–Triassic mass extinction, a few tough kinds of life spread quickly. This made recovery look fast, but complex ecosystems took much longer to return. Research places the start of broader recovery around four to six million years later, with some estimates putting full recovery as late as 30 million years afterward.

Most major animal body types appear in a short burst of the fossil record

~10 million years

During the Cambrian explosion, most major kinds of modern animal body plans appeared in the fossil record within roughly 10 million years. That sounds long, but it is a short period compared with Earth's billions of years of life.

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1923 Ruhr occupation German money printing hyperinflation

Printing money for Ruhr strikers fueled hyperinflation

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