Every now and then the world is visited by one of these delusive seasons when “the credit system,” as it is called, expands to full luxuriance; everybody trusts everybody; a bad debt is a thing unheard of….Promissory notes, interchanged between scheming individuals, are liberally discounted at the banks, which become so many mints to coin …
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