einem Ponzi-Schema, das in ähnlicher Weise auch heute läuft. Der Unterschied ist im Wesentlichen, dass seit 2008 auch noch die Zentralbanker als Wall-Street-Büttel eingespannt wurden.
1929 wurde Aktienkurse regelmäßig von einer kleiner Gruppe reicher Insider manipuliert - meist nach oben, um später teurer verkaufen zu können. Auch die Presse war damals stark involviert. Redakteure der New York Times erhielten von Wall-Street-Insidern prall gefüllte Briefumschläge, damit sie "something nice" über die damalige Hype-Aktie RCA schrieben. Auch danach hypte die Presse die Aktien (gegen Schmiergeld) munter weiter. So wurden die Kleinanleger-Massen geködert, deren Gier gezielt angefacht wurde. Als die Klein-Deppen zum Fünffachen des Einstiegskurses der Insider kauften, waren letztere längst draußen.
Der nachfolgende Knall hat die Insider in keinster Weise überrascht. Charles Ponzi (Foto unten) lebte übrigens ebenfalls in dieser Zeit:
www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-02/...ep-down-they-knew-party-was-over
"...[1929] there was great hope. America came out of World War I with the economy intact. We were the only strong country in the world. The dollar was king. We had a very popular president in the middle of the decade, Calvin Coolidge, and an even more popular one elected in 1928, Herbert Hoover. So things looked pretty good."
"The economy was changing in this new America. It was the dawn of the consumer revolution. New inventions, mass marketing, factories turning out amazing products like radios, rayon, air conditioners, underarm deodorant...One of the most wondrous inventions of the age was consumer credit. Before 1920, the average worker couldn't borrow money. By 1929, "buy now, pay later" had become a way of life."
"Wall Street got the credit for this prosperity and Wall Street was dominated by just a small group of wealthy men. Rarely in the history of this nation had so much raw power been concentrated in the hands of a few businessmen..."
"One of the most common tactics was to manipulate the price of a particular stock, a stock like Radio Corporation of America...Wealthy investors would pool their money in a secret agreement to buy a stock, inflate its price and then sell it to an unsuspecting public. Most stocks in the 1920s were regularly manipulated by insiders."
Der folgende Absatz beschreibt das damalige Ponzi-System:
"I would say that practically all the financial journals were on the take. This includes reporters for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Herald-Tribune, you name it. So if you were a pool operator, you'd call your friend at The Times and say, "Look, Charlie, there's an envelope waiting for you here and we think that perhaps you should write something nice about RCA." And Charlie would write something nice about RCA. A publicity man called A. Newton Plummer had canceled checks from practically every major journalist in New York City... Then, they would begin to -- what was called "painting the tape" and they would make the stock look exciting. They would trade among themselves and you'd see these big prints on RCA and people will say, "Oh, it looks as though that stock is being accumulated. Now, if they are behind it, you want to join them, so you go out and you buy stock also. Now, what's happening is the stock goes from 10 to 15 to 20 and now, it's at 20 and you start buying, other people start buying at 30, 40. The original group, the pool, they've stopped buying. They're selling you the stock. It's now 50 and they're out of it. And what happens, of course, is the stock collapses."
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Gauner Charles Ponzi, Erfinder des Schneeballsystem und das große Vorbild von Madoff
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