Leveraging Opportunity
A unique investment strategy emerges, allowing individuals to buy ships with minimal upfront costs, leading to substantial profits. However, as the Great Depression tightens credit, over-leveraged investors face bankruptcy, illustrating a timeless lesson: in prosperous times, leverage can appear as genius, but in downturns, it often leads to ruin. This cycle of human behavior and financial risk is echoed throughout history.In this clip
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