In the 1970s, faced with two oil crises and inflation, the idea of buying property to preserve value became widespread, and those who could afford it bought land and houses. At that time, the stock market had only a hundred or so listed companies, and its fate depended on a few manipulators behind the scenes.
到了六十年代，兩次石油危機和惡性通貨膨脹，使得買房地產「保值」的觀念深入人心，手頭寬裕點的就買土地、買房子，小老百姓則跟會、買愛國獎券。