A time-traveler arrives in 1900 with virtually unlimited money as his only resource from the future. How does he stop the Great Depression from starting?
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Egao No Genki
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One thing he could do would be to give his money to Germany so they dont default..... I dont really know too much about it tho.
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In order to stave such off, he/she would have to convince Wall Street to disallow shadow purchasing. One of the biggest problems was that by shadowpurchasing stocks, one could technically make a lot of money with price increases ON PAPER. Up until a few years ago, Wall street required that if you 'invested' X amount of money during a day- that you pony up the money for your purchases that same end of business day. If you couldn't, then you didn't get to keep what you 'purchased'. By not requiring such, is what helped the depression to come along in the first place. And unlimited money will just lead to inflation anyways. Zimbabwe, Germany, etc, had hyperinflation- by just printing up more money. Thus eventually, a trillion marks of the old currency was needed to buy a loaf of bread in Pre WW2 Germany.
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