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    Crash Course: A History of Financial Folly

    Paper Empires: How Fictional Fortunes Toppled Real Economies

    By David G. Stone

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    The true stories behind history's greatest financial illusions: paper fortunes, shadow banking schemes, and speculative manias that wrecked national economies. From John Law's Mississippi Company to 1920s Ponzi schemes and 2008 synthetic CDOs, Paper Empires unmasks how accounting…

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    David G. Stone
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    ELC Publishing
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    Crash Course: A History of Financial Folly
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    The true stories behind history's greatest financial illusions: paper fortunes, shadow banking schemes, and speculative manias that wrecked national economies. From John Law's Mississippi Company to 1920s Ponzi schemes and 2008 synthetic CDOs, Paper Empires unmasks how accounting trickery creates short-term euphoria before devastating crashes.

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