Got to agree with you generally. The depression of 1873 was based on the railroad bubble. Similar to the housing bubble since railroads spent a decade being a guaranteed investment like housing was. The bank Jay Cooke and Co failed when foreign money dried up. This failure spawned a failure on wall street and the New York stock exchange was shut down for 10 days to control panic selling. Within 2 years of Cooke's failure almost 20,000 businesses were lost and a third of the railroads went bankrupt. Unemployment was high and wages lost up to 45% which in turn spawned the rise of labor unions. This particular depression lasted 6 years but some think that the US didnt actually recover until 1897. I'm not sure there is a good side to the involvement or lack of. I think the involvement has done away with the smaller recessions which in turn build up to big ones. A problem is that with the economy so globally connected the businesses need to be so big to remain competitive. So while I agree with the sentiments I'm personally not sure that it is totally the right way, which is why the government doesn't pay me for economic advice.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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