When contagion metaphor and economic analogy join forces to manifest our anxieties at a time of high inflation: “At the currency clinic” (epidemic department). Patient name: Austrian crown. Disease: Pestis pecuniae. Fur-swathed French franc in the waiting room. German Herr von Mark: “Your prominence is useless here, Madame… The epidemic will not avoid you.” (Borsszem Jankó, Budapest, 1922)
Sic Transit Pestilentia 