Crossword-Solution: AGIOTAGE 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

They more than intimated that the great of the land were mixed up in the disgraceful agiotage that had led to these serious difficulties, and that all this brilliant dust of a civilizing expedition to a distant El Dorado was raised about the Emperor by his entourage to conceal from him what was going on nearer home.

Nearly all of them built, erected huge houses, entire streets of them, for purposes of sale; but they also gambled in land, selling plots at large profit to petty speculators, who also dreamt of making large profits amidst the continuous, fictitious rise brought about by the growing fever of agiotage.

The agiotage, of course, was the profit of the bankers and brokers; a sum estimated at six millions of dollars a year, or ten per cent.

This cumulation of public securities in the market, within a short time threw them all into discredit, and gave rise to an _agiotage_, highly injurious to commerce and agriculture." "The province was at this time inundated by a flood of paper money.