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Inflation. "The Street of Speculators" during the "Mississippi Bubble" when peasants all over France sold everything they had, flocked to Paris, and bought 100-par shares of gambler John Law's stocks at $3,600 apiece. Thee hunchback in foreground made $10,000 by letting people use his back as a desk

Inflation. "The Street of Speculators" during the "Mississippi Bubble"...

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