. Then the banks would take these notes and create a market in which to trade them. The result of this massive buy now-pay later program was rampant inflation. (Reich, 25) By 1918 the French government had a foreign debt of 43 billion francs or 4 billion dollars U.S.
             Andre Meyer was working at a small Paris bank called Baur & Sons when all this trading of government notes, IOU's and corporate business papers were taking place and it excited him. He quickly decided that trading was the business he wanted to practice and almost immediately Andre became one of the be
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