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Today is the federal holiday that honors civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was born January 15, 1929, and was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis at just 39 years old. We play an excerpt from King’s last speech, “I Have Been to the Mountaintop,” in which he spoke of the ongoing struggle for equal rights that he said would continue even without […]

Greece’s hyperinflation crisis during World War II was so bad it resorted to printing banknotes worth 100 TRILLION drachmas Greece experienced extreme hyperinflation during WWII, with prices doubling every 4.3 days and monthly inflation reaching 13,800 percent by October 1944. The crisis was driven by Axis occupation, wartime debt and economic collapse, leading to the issuance of larger and larger banknotes that symbolized the occupied country's economic despair. Hyperinflation devastated daily […]