FrothySolutions
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Imagine you're about to head into the fall semester. Also, imagine that it's 1929.
Imagine that you're reasonably popular in your social circles. Maybe it's because you come from money. Your father is a self-made banker, principal associate of one of America's most powerful financial houses. He spends his days globetrotting and spending his excess wealth on vanity art/philanthropy projects. You're also what they call a "football hero," having dedicated considerable effort to your physique to be drafted as a linebacker for your school's football team. You've got the shiniest raccoon coat on campus, and you're slated to graduate with an economics degree and enter the "family business." Your future seems set.
Or does it? Though you try your best to be social, you've always found yourself distracted from people by figures and analysis. You prefer to sit, and watch, and calculate. And earlier this year, around early spring, you started noticing market patterns that you can't help but add up to what might be the gravest financial crisis the world has ever seen.
If you're right, your economics degree will be useless, first of all. That's the best case scenario. Worst case scenario? Your entire family is plunged into bankruptcy, along with the United States. If not the world. If you could know for a fact that the economy is about to die, what should you do knowing that? Not continue your economics degree?
Imagine that you're reasonably popular in your social circles. Maybe it's because you come from money. Your father is a self-made banker, principal associate of one of America's most powerful financial houses. He spends his days globetrotting and spending his excess wealth on vanity art/philanthropy projects. You're also what they call a "football hero," having dedicated considerable effort to your physique to be drafted as a linebacker for your school's football team. You've got the shiniest raccoon coat on campus, and you're slated to graduate with an economics degree and enter the "family business." Your future seems set.
Or does it? Though you try your best to be social, you've always found yourself distracted from people by figures and analysis. You prefer to sit, and watch, and calculate. And earlier this year, around early spring, you started noticing market patterns that you can't help but add up to what might be the gravest financial crisis the world has ever seen.
If you're right, your economics degree will be useless, first of all. That's the best case scenario. Worst case scenario? Your entire family is plunged into bankruptcy, along with the United States. If not the world. If you could know for a fact that the economy is about to die, what should you do knowing that? Not continue your economics degree?