Speculators Quotes

“Banks banked and distributed capital, ventures were ventured in boom and bust extravagance and fortunes could not help being made. By the law of trickle down economics, unnecessaries were invented and marketed as essentials such as opaque glass and third party defamation insurance, gossip being quite valuable as one high court judge pointed out in a famous settlement case where lemon tarts and bitter acrimony were involved.

The need, it was inevitably suggested, was for quality and style in a tired-looking town full of disused miners and the fashion circuit was born. Exclusive ranges of shops fronted by gold-sprinkled walkways took possession of land earmarked originally for schools and hospitals and neighbourhoods soon felt the need to push themselves closer to such richness. (Chapter 4)”
― Martyn X Brown