The Germans even named their currency after him

  • citrussy_capybara [ze/hir]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    Marx would be on r/WallStreetBets

    "I have, which will surprise you not a little, been speculating — partly in American funds, but more especially in English stocks, which are springing up like mushrooms this year … [and which] are forced up to quite an unreasonable level and then, for the most part, collapse. In this way, I have made over £400 and, now that the complexity of the political situation affords greater scope, I shall begin all over again. It’s a type of operation that makes small demands on one’s time, and it’s worthwhile”

    above to his uncle, below to his sugardaddy

    “Had I had the money during the past 10 days, I’d have made a killing on the Stock Exchange here. The time has come again when, with wit and very little money, it’s possible to make money in London."