[dfwgator]

the economy with the nearly quadrupling within a few years.

It was a "house of cards."

[count-your-change]

Indeed but coming out of horrific war even a house of cards provided opportunities for fortunes to be made. and lost.

The “Great War”, “The War to End All Wars” was quite a blow to the comfortable moral assumptions of people. Toss out the old morality, in with the new amorality.