While most people rightfully think of The Great Depression as an economic catastrophe of epic proportions, an earlier one almost bankrupted the country. The Panic of 1893, which started over a ...
I found an interesting historical analysis of the global price of silver and gold from 1850 to 1890 in one of a pile of Engineering and Mining Journals that fill up a shelf in my closet. It expanded ...
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