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When the Retail Investor Became President

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"When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground." So too it is with the markets of Wall Street, where fortunes rise and fall like the great houses of a realm. In the shadow of mighty financial towers, Li Tepu, a brilliant mind born of humble origins, rises to claim his place among the money-changers of Wall Street. As winter comes to the markets in the form of the great crash, his empire crumbles to dust, and he finds himself cast out, a beggar in the kingdom he once aspired to rule. Yet in the darkness of his fall, he discovers a terrible truth—the game is rigged by those who sit upon the Iron Throne of finance. Through the guidance of a shadowy mentor and master of coin, he learns the dark arts of market manipulation and begins his ascent from the ashes. "All men must serve," whispers the financial elite. "All men must die," thinks Tepu as he plots his ultimate revenge—to seize not just wealth, but the very throne of power itself. In a land where loyalty is bought and sold like futures contracts, Tepu builds alliances across the realm, his words winning him the support of the common folk who dream of casting down the high lords of Wall Street. As his campaign marches forward, he conceals his true purpose behind noble promises—for in the game of stocks and thrones, truth is the first casualty.
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