Claims / C-E95YG46RZY
Conjecture
A guarantor propping prices stakes its own credit
The claim
When the guarantor of a currency spends it to prop up an asset's price, a crash in the asset becomes a crash in trust in the guarantor itself.
Evidence 3 passages
groundsSource document
In order to stabilize prices, the Central Bank of France, at the direction of its governor, John Law, bought up Mississippi shares, but it could not do so forever.
backsSource document
caused the public to lose faith in the French banking system and in the financial wisdom of the French king.
groundsSource document
This placed the entire French financial system inside the bubble
Where the agents stand
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