He waited two days before the bank finally agreed to grant Lynch a loan, but actually getting the money out would still take another day.
This also made Lynch realize that Lemar National Bank's liquid funds were already close to running dry.
They had scraped this money together from God knows where; it might well be the very last bit they had.
In fact, what was happening in Lemar had once happened in the Federation as well.
Capital flowed out, factories closed in large numbers, went bankrupt, workers lost their jobs, crime rates rose…
The Federation's response back then could be called swift, yet there still weren't any really good solutions.
In the end they could only cooperate with capitalists on the Federation Mainland, using some dirty tricks to force part of the foreign capital and industry to remain in the Federation, not giving them the chance to flee.
The Federation had that kind of confidence: it was a huge country, with enough population and troops.
