‘War, Boom, Bust’ is often heard in the context of economic cycles in history. A war is needed to get a country or empire out of the doldrums of the last economic bust. The manufacturing industry building war machinery is turned on and that fuels the economy, driving enormous ‘boom’ activity which gives the illusion and also the reality of prosperity, at least temporarily.
A small number of industrialists and banksters become extremely rich.
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