In this animated short, Richard Condie offers up a history lesson about
one of the most sensational get-rich-quick schemes that took place in
France over 200 years ago. With economist John Law at the helm, the plan
was to open a bank and exchange bank notes for gold at wildly inflated
share prices to mask the fact that the country's gold had been depleted
in the building of Louis XIV's palace. When the inevitable rush to cash
in the notes takes place, poor John Law is left broke and
broken-hearted.
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