How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes

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After months of tense negotiations, Bass’s ambassadors 
convinced the Sinopians that a sale of the Water Works was 
politically impossible. Instead, the Sinopians somewhat 
bitterly agreed to make a 100,000-fi sh loan.
“Hey, Hank,” said Bass, after word came back of the 
successful outcome. “Great news, we got the loan. Just one 
thing.How are we gonna pay it back?”
“Well, sir, I expect that we will just print up another batch of 
Fish Reserve Notes. But this time we will use our very best 
paper.” 
“Hold on honcho. Sell the Water Works? You’re talking 
about jeopardizing our national security! They’d have me 
tarred and feathered for giving up something like that to 
those carpetbaggers. Couldn’t they just make it a loan 
instead?”

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