Evidence of price stabilisation in 1920s Weimar Germany

by joe_sizlack

Does anyone have any statistics to evidence the stability of the Reichsmark currency? Finding it very difficult to demonstrate the stability of the new currency following its issue. Statistics on purchasing power of the RM between the years 1924-29 would be absolutely perfect.

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BenMic81

An easy source would be this chart by the German Bundesbank (federal reserve bank) showing inflation adjusted purchase power over years https://www.bundesbank.de/resource/blob/615162/d55a20f8a4ecedd6d1b53e01b89f11c4/mL/kaufkraftaequivalente-historischer-betraege-in-deutschen-waehrungen-data.pdf

See that the years prior to 1924 and later than 1928 are labelled as “insecure/unreliable”. This source in German offers a tool for calculation: https://www.dm-euro-rechner.de/die-reichsmark/