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The drive for profit in the capitalist sector is behind the inexorable expansion of credit. A fall in the rate of profit promotes speculation. If the capitalists cannot make enough profit producing commodities, they will try making money betting on the stock exchange or buying various other financial instruments.
— Mar 21, 2026 07:01AM
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“What the story of the Great Depression and WW2 shows is that once capitalism is in the depth of a depression, there must be a grinding and deep destruction of all that capitalism had accumulated in value in previous decades before a new era of expansion becomes possible.”
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The capitalists experience the falling rate of profit almost simultaneously, so they start to buy these stocks and assets at the same time, driving prices up. But when stocks and assets prices are rising, everybody wants to buy them—this is the beginning of the bubble on exactly the lines we have seen again and again since the Tulip Crisis of 1637.
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