Quote Originally Posted by 0livia View Post
Oh ok, haven't seen your last post when I answered.
A regulation is very desirable but the biggest company is the country economy itself. They have the biggest debts. And they need to recharge every now and then and start from zero. Much to the disadvantage of everyone who has money in a bank, stocks or else, cause that money will be worthless then and replaced by another currency.
Happened twice in Germany during the last century and people ARE horrified!
Not at least for their experiences with what it lead to after 1929 cause it has promoted the Nazis to come up.
Well there was the economic situation and there was also the vacuum left by the Socialist Party (SDP) after the failed (Trotsky would say strangled) revolution of 1923, which left the theretofore rather well-organized working masses disillusioned and in effect leaderless. This situation was ripe for ultra-nationalistic exploitation, among other things.

There were a lot of factors going into the rise of Hitler - as is always the case with the rise of any government.