• Financial meltdowns of the past

    Date: 2008.10.08 | Category: ahh the news | Tags: ,

    The current financial meltdown isn’t the largest nor the first of its kind. We’ve had our fair share and we’ll probably have them in the future. Neatorama has a great list of them that includes highlights like

    The Panic of 1907
    Wall Street crash of 1929
    Great Depression
    1973 Oil Crisis
    Black Monday
    Savings and Loan Crisis
    Long Term Capital Bailout
    Dot-com Bubble
    California Energy Crisis

    If you’ve got ten minutes its high time to bone up on boneheaded things we’ve done to the economy. Do you think we’ll learn from our mistakes this time? nah