* The Crédit Mobilier’s operations, ostensibly in support of industrial projects and protected by the Bonapartist government, were based as Marx points out here on unsound principles and provided the framework for a variety of palpably fraudulent speculations. In 1856 and 1857 Marx wrote several articles for the New York Daily Tribune exposing the operations of the Crédit Mobilier, which finally went bankrupt in 1867.