This feels like history rhyming... "[T]he practice of 'buying on margin' allowed a person to acquire stock by expending in cash as little as ten percent of the

This feels like history rhyming... "[T]he practice of 'buying on margin' allowed a person to acquire stock by expending in cash as little as ten percent of the price of a stock. The balance was covered by a loan from a broker, who was advanced the money by his bank, which, in turn, accepted the stock as collateral for the loan. Credit was easy, and the Federal Reserve System did little to restrict the availability of money for stock investment." -- article on the stock market crash of 1929 https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/stock-market-crash-1929 https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-...