Bram Stoker and bankers

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J. Johnson, new contributor to the Miles Franklin Newsletter has an interesting theory that the story of Dracula, by Bram Stoker, was actually a veiled metaphor for bankers sucking the life out of the people by the issuance of fiat paper vs. use of precious metal. To that end Johnson has reminded us that before Dracula, Stoker wrote a non-fiction book called "Famous Imposters", which can be viewed on Google books at the link below. Look especially at the chapter on John Law, about which I had some small recollection but not in anywhere this level of detail. Wow... Do we really think that we (as a society) can't be hoodwinked? It happens over and over, and we're in the middle of multiple schemes underway all at once. Watch your pocketbook.

Famous Imposters, by Bram Stoker

https://books.google.com/books?id=ie5kA ... rs&f=false

Read - at least skim - the chapter on John Law. A Scot by birth, Law rose to the very top of France, just below the king, and while for a time appeared to many to be a great and wise man, but what was eventually unmasked as a national pyramid scheme destroyed the fortunes of much of Europe in the process, during the late 1710s and early 1720s.