Gründerkrach grunderzeit.1 · dlc014
Years of optimism and financial growth have come to a screeching halt, with blood-red numbers numbers reported across German stock exchanges as banks and speculative companies collapse like dominos.
Bank Run in … The announcement of the liquidation of a series of prominent companies triggered an avalanche, sweeping away not only small investors but also well-known financiers. All day, telegram couriers have been frantically dashing through crowds, and merchants were seen burning their worthless stock certificates.
Thirty Years of Progress grunderzeit.2 · dlc014
Following decades of economic prosperity, the intense drive and activity that defined them has now somewhat abated. These years will go down in … history as some of her most glorious.
"And they called it a bubble, pah! A bubble!? Only a fool would invest their spouse's inheritance in something like that, and I will tell you one thing, liebchen, I am no fool."
The Age of Entrepreneurs grunderzeit.3 · dlc014
Spurred on by innovations in financial law and the proliferation of the railway, the German lands are abuzz with activity, with new companies and business ventures springing up like toadstools.
The foreman cracks his whip again, driving the exhausted team of horses forward. They had made decent progress today—most of the sand had been carried off the site. But decent is not good. And even good is hardly sufficient. The whip cracks out again. The foreman feels a pang of guilt for the poor creatures, but quickly pushes the thought away. Mercy will not transform this site into a new factory. Determination will.
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