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Happy 111th Anniversary, Panic of 1907

BaleyBaley Posts: 22,661 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited October 23, 2018 11:40AM in Precious Metals

On this day in history, 10/23/1907, JP Morgan persuades other trust company presidents to join him in providing liquidity to attempt to stave off rolling trust collapses and runs on banks caused by Otto Heinze and Knickerbocker's failed attempt to corner the stock of United Copper Co.

The NYSE fell 50% and the panic and recession spread throughout the US and most of the world, as depositors withdrew funds from regional banks.

Morgan's US Steel takeover of TC&I is credited with helping contain a subsequent contagion, ( Morgan had also helped
rescue the US Treasury during the panic of 1893) eventually lead to the creation of the Federal reserve system.

Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry

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  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 33,240 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'm looking for another US Steel cavalry ride soon. The banking sector is flailing.

    Current maintainer of Stone's Master List of Favorite Websites // My BST transactions
  • VanHalenVanHalen Posts: 4,029 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Good thing we have The Fed to keep things stabilized now.

  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Interesting !!! :)

    Timbuk3
  • cohodkcohodk Posts: 19,187 ✭✭✭✭✭

    And 50 years later folks were still talking about conspiracies and manipulation and the good old days. And the Space Bros had visited New Mexico.

    Excuses are tools of the ignorant

    Knowledge is the enemy of fear

  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,945 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 24, 2018 6:38AM

    Actually one of my conspiracy theory ancestors who lived in a cave claims their visits were much earlier.

    The government is incapable of ever managing the economy. That is why communism collapsed. It is now socialism’s turn - Martin Armstrong

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Oh well, panics, sell offs, manipulation et al.... Stock up on food, water and ammunition (and a means to deliver it)....Time marches on... Cheers, RickO

  • jmski52jmski52 Posts: 22,899 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 26, 2018 4:02AM

    Yep, he decided "what we really need here is an effective cartel. Free market? We don't need no stinkin' free market."

    Q: Are You Printing Money? Bernanke: Not Literally

    I knew it would happen.
  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,661 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The "Free" market is more subject and vulnerable to Manipulation than the one with some controls?

    Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry

  • jmski52jmski52 Posts: 22,899 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 27, 2018 6:32PM

    The "Free" market is more subject and vulnerable to Manipulation than the one with some controls?

    I wouldn't necessarily say that, but I can say that it's not good when the controllers and regulators have financial interests in the markets that they control and regulate. Do you not agree? Please don't tell me that you don't understand this.

    Q: Are You Printing Money? Bernanke: Not Literally

    I knew it would happen.
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,364 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 30, 2018 5:25AM

    Why go back only 100 years ? Men are scaredy-cats. Got blinders ? Keep them on.

  • ShadyDaveShadyDave Posts: 2,201 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Baley said:
    The "Free" market is more subject and vulnerable to Manipulation than the one with some controls?

    Depends on who is doing the "controlling".

  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,661 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If one knows the lake has a wave machine, does one surf, or flounder about? Or sit on the shore and complain?

    Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry

  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,661 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Or operate the concession? Or clean the latrine? Or fix the wave machine when it breaks down?

    Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry

  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,661 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Or truck in the sand? Or truck out the trash, or sell the tickets?

    Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry

  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,661 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @derryb said:
    Actually one of my conspiracy theory ancestors who lived in a cave claims their visits were much earlier.

    There is of course a very reasonable explanation for someone to make cave paintings like that 13000 or 5500 or 900 years ago.. and there is the explanation that They want you to believe, and for you to make fun of the Truth.

    Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry

  • cohodkcohodk Posts: 19,187 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 1, 2019 3:11PM

    There is another anniversary coming up this week.

    Excuses are tools of the ignorant

    Knowledge is the enemy of fear

  • renman95renman95 Posts: 7,037 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Today is the 70th anniversary of communism. There was a celebration on the waterfront here in Guangzhou. Lots of chanting and singing...
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    ...until the rain came.
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    President Xi Jinping
    “Looking at the world at large, we're facing a period of major change never seen in a century… And China's sincerity and goodwill to safeguard world peace and promote common development will remain unchanged.”

    Riiight?

  • SoldiSoldi Posts: 2,177 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 7, 2019 8:39AM

    I forgot what I promised myself

  • cohodkcohodk Posts: 19,187 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Soldi said:
    What's really cool about the start of this thread is have you ever tried to tell someone about this and 1874 and 1893 panics? That the 1929 Great Depression wasn't the only spec. bubble, Prior to >2007 < my opinion of the start.

    Yet our parents and grandparents and great-grandparents all survived. The world did not end. Bullets and food and water and cigarettes were not prerequisites for survival.

    Excuses are tools of the ignorant

    Knowledge is the enemy of fear

  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,945 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @cohodk said:

    @Soldi said:
    What's really cool about the start of this thread is have you ever tried to tell someone about this and 1874 and 1893 panics? That the 1929 Great Depression wasn't the only spec. bubble, Prior to >2007 < my opinion of the start.

    Yet our parents and grandparents and great-grandparents all survived. The world did not end. Bullets and food and water and cigarettes were not prerequisites for survival.

    Somewhere between life and death does lie misery.

    The government is incapable of ever managing the economy. That is why communism collapsed. It is now socialism’s turn - Martin Armstrong

  • SoldiSoldi Posts: 2,177 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 7, 2019 8:37AM

    @cohodk said:

    @Soldi said:
    What's really cool about the start of this thread is have you ever tried to tell someone about this and 1874 and 1893 panics? That the 1929 Great Depression wasn't the only spec. bubble, Prior to >2007 < my opinion of the start.

    Yet our parents and grandparents and great-grandparents all survived. The world did not end. Bullets and food and water and cigarettes were not prerequisites for survival.

    ,but I promised myself I'd stop posting

  • SoldiSoldi Posts: 2,177 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 7, 2019 8:40AM

    ,but more than once I did

  • cohodkcohodk Posts: 19,187 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @derryb said:

    @cohodk said:

    @Soldi said:
    What's really cool about the start of this thread is have you ever tried to tell someone about this and 1874 and 1893 panics? That the 1929 Great Depression wasn't the only spec. bubble, Prior to >2007 < my opinion of the start.

    Yet our parents and grandparents and great-grandparents all survived. The world did not end. Bullets and food and water and cigarettes were not prerequisites for survival.

    Somewhere between life and death does lie misery.

    And misery does love company.

    Panic is an extreme emotion that opens oneself up to being taken advantage. Logical and rational thought is what is required. Folks panic in good and bad times and are invariably losers. Ones own thoughts should not be controlled by any entity, beit the Fed or a politician, or greedy robber barons. One should make his bed everyday.

    Excuses are tools of the ignorant

    Knowledge is the enemy of fear

  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,945 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @cohodk said:

    @derryb said:

    @cohodk said:

    @Soldi said:
    What's really cool about the start of this thread is have you ever tried to tell someone about this and 1874 and 1893 panics? That the 1929 Great Depression wasn't the only spec. bubble, Prior to >2007 < my opinion of the start.

    Yet our parents and grandparents and great-grandparents all survived. The world did not end. Bullets and food and water and cigarettes were not prerequisites for survival.

    Somewhere between life and death does lie misery.

    And misery does love company.

    you can count on me. I will always be there for you.

    The government is incapable of ever managing the economy. That is why communism collapsed. It is now socialism’s turn - Martin Armstrong

  • cohodkcohodk Posts: 19,187 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @derryb said:

    @cohodk said:

    @derryb said:

    @cohodk said:

    @Soldi said:
    What's really cool about the start of this thread is have you ever tried to tell someone about this and 1874 and 1893 panics? That the 1929 Great Depression wasn't the only spec. bubble, Prior to >2007 < my opinion of the start.

    Yet our parents and grandparents and great-grandparents all survived. The world did not end. Bullets and food and water and cigarettes were not prerequisites for survival.

    Somewhere between life and death does lie misery.

    And misery does love company.

    you can count on me. I will always be there for you.

    Youve got my confidence.

    Excuses are tools of the ignorant

    Knowledge is the enemy of fear

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