"The capitalist who is solicited for a loan by a needy Finance Minister, considers, first and chiefly, how soon and on what terms he will be able to sell his rights to it."- Francis William Newman, in On the constitutional and moral
right or wrong of our National Debt, published in 1849.
"The commonwealth was not yet lost in Tiberius's days, but it was already doomed and Rome knew it. The fundamental trouble could not be cured. In Italy, labor could not support life..." - Vladimir Simkhovitch, "Rome's Fall Reconsidered"
Saturday, January 22, 2022
Securitization, 1849-style
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