Vanity and agiotage are to a Parisian the oxygen and hydrogen of life. From LearnThat.org. [http://www.answers.com/topic/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. on the exchanges of the country, which McDuffie, in his celebrated report, estimated at sixty millions annually. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference
What they mean by peace is agiotage, shares at a premium, and bubble companies. From Wordnik.com. [Endymion] Reference
Therefore, upon his return to Paris in April, 1785, he made a series of attacks upon agiotage, or stock jobbing, most effectively assaulting the. From Wordnik.com. [Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Maximilian in Mexico] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 3] Reference
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