The Rise Of Australasia

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What was even more fatal was that along with the rise of these forces, several banks in New York had already been robbed, losing funds totaling at least hundreds of thousands of US dollars.

This dealt a heavy blow to the banking industry that was already struggling to survive. The banks that had their funds stolen were forced into bankruptcy, as most small and medium-sized banks could not afford to cough up another few hundred thousand US dollars to cash out the people who wanted to withdraw their money.

Every time these bank-robbing forces succeeded, they would throw a big handful of banknotes, inducing unemployed crowds and vagrants on the streets to frantically scramble for the money—also serving as a convenient aid to their escape.

Facing these money-desperate unemployed masses and vagrants, the American Police were also helpless.

To the unemployed and homeless, that money was as important as life itself. If police dared to impede these people, a struggle between the public and the police would be inevitable.

It was precisely because of the cover provided by these crowds that present-day New York had become a paradise for dark forces.

Amid the destruction caused by these Black forces in New York, America’s major Consortia began to grow increasingly discontented, continually exerting pressure on the American Government.

But President Coolidge really didn’t have a good solution either. As a politician who had previously served as a lawyer and judge, President Coolidge’s research into the economy wasn’t very profound.

The fame of the ‘Coolidge Prosperity’ fell upon him; he just happened to rule during that era.

Asking President Coolidge now to resolve the chaos in the United States was akin to letting President Coolidge carry one more big ‘pot’ at the end, pinning all the responsibilities of the economic crisis onto him.

This was also good news for America’s Consortia. With the recent loss of Central America, it provided a perfect opportunity for them to let President Coolidge take the blame, potentially marking him as the most disastrous president in American history.

After all the responsibility had been shifted onto President Coolidge, America’s major Consortia could then support a new spokesperson and incidentally seek more benefits for themselves.

As for the life and death of tens of millions of American people, those Consortia did not care much. After all, the Population of the United States had already reached hundreds of millions; losing several million people was within the range they could afford, certainly a lesser loss than that of their properties!