Instruct: Classify the given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Waffle

The author is either more interested in being regarded as a master wordsmith than explaining why the hyperinflation happened, or he just couldnt make sense of it (but couldnt come out and admit that).I'll give you the skinny:page 9. "Before 1914, the credit policy of the Reichsbank had been governed by the Bank Law of 1875, whereby not less than one-third of the note issue had to be covered by gold...In August 1914 action was taken both to pay for the war and to PROTECT (emphasis mine) the country's gold reserves. The latter objective was achieved by the simple device of suspending the redemption of Reichsbank notes in gold."For me, the above excerpt was the only salient section of the book. It is good if you want accounts of the effect hyperinflation has on society. However I was looking for an explanation of WHY it happens, and on that basis the book is poor.