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In the Vienna of 1922, ordinary households followed the share listings as a matter of survival, and Moriz Dub set out to explain why. Written as a sequel to his earlier study for the Finanz- und Volkswirtschaftliche Zeitfragen series, this pamphlet insists that the spectacular boom on the Austrian and German exchanges—the Katastrophenhausse—is no prosperity but the market's mirror of currency collapse. Through tables converting Vienna and Berlin quotations into dollar parities, Dub shows that gains reckoned in crowns and marks conceal real impoverishment; investors flee money for Substanzwerte, claims on inventories, land, and machinery. Only monetary stabilization can end the spell, he argues, and its price will be a fall in securities whose rise depended on endless depreciation.
Österreich ist für jenen, der mit fremder Valuta rechnet, das billigste Land Europas, während seine eigenen Bewohner unter unerträglicher Teuerung stöhnen.
English translation: “For anyone reckoning in foreign currency, Austria is the cheapest country in Europe, while its own inhabitants groan under unbearable inflation.”