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The Birth of “Irrational Exuberance”

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Long before there was Alan Greenspan to turn the Federal Reserve into Casino Central, there was John Law, France’s minister of finance more than three centuries ago. Like Greenspan’s infamous bubbles, Law’s money-printing scheme made people rich—for a very short time.

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