A
look back on the great depression
A quick recap on the causes of the great
depression in the early 1920's.
The
decline of the Roman Empire
The super power of its time at a time of
its economic decline.
The
First banking Institution
The knights templar were not solely
a symbol of war, but is also a banking giant.
The Metric
currency
The cent, pence, lira and a lot more consolidated
in a much simpler form
The Japanese asset price bubble
Japan was a leading electronics manufacturer in the
1980s with it came an economic bubble of great scale that its aftermath are still felt to this day.
Fiat currency
The US suffered high inflation rates during the 70's as a result of economic demands of war. As a means to curb inflation, the dollar's ties with gold was severed forever.
Recovery
from the great depression
Keynes argued that the government has
to spend in order to get out of depression.
German
hyperinflation
The devastating effects of printing more
money out of thin air.
Prelude
to 1907 banking crisis
How an aspiring broker managed to ruin the
financial system in 1907.
The
Tulip Mania
This flower mania defies logic as investors
traded their estates for tulips.
Golden cities
The spanish empire at its peak produced over
a third of the world's gold output. However, with
great gold comes great inflation that destroys
empires.