How Many Germans Are Over One Hundred Years Old?

That's one question that readers of Eduardo Porter's insightful column on the prospects of the euro must be asking. Porter commented on the concerns expressed by Germany about inflation in a context where the inflation rate has been drifting lower for years and is now near zero. He argued that:

"conditioned by memories of hyperinflation after World War I, they still fear higher inflation."

Hmmm, "memories of hyperinflation?" Let's see, we're talking about a burst of hyper-inflation that took...