How did speculators profit when the government paid its debt?

Speculators had bought bonds from the original buyers for less than they were worth. If the government paid its debt, speculators would make a profit. Speculators had bought bonds from the original buyers for less than they were worth. If the government paid its debt, speculators would make a profit.

Contributing factors  leading  to the harlem renaissance were the great migration of african americans to northern cities, which concentratedambitious  people in places where they could encourage each  other, and the first world war, which had created new industrial work opportunities for tens of thousands of people.