Bloomberg: Worse financial crisis in 1600 years

Quote from Pa(b)st Prime:

Economic conditions were a bit worse during the fall of Rome than what we're seeing now. Chariot sales plunged 50% in 476-I remember going to a gladiator contest at the Colosseum that summer and the place was dead as a morgue. I still say if the Bank of Rome had eased earlier the crisis could've been mitigated.

Did they do a bailout of the chariot makers?
 
They bailed out the pottery industry, very powerful back then. Unfortunately only after throwing half the gold in the empire did they realize a broken pot is in fact, a broken pot.
 
This time is different. The Romans lacked a strong central bank willing to provide liquidity when needed.

Plus, deflation is much easier when effort and materials actually had to be inputted to make money.

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Quote from BSAM:

Did they do a bailout of the chariot makers?

Fortunately BSAM they did. I argued that Roman technology could develop some sort of hybrid chariot and only 1300 years later the stagecoach verified my vision. Slaves in Rome though had contracts that paled some of the more recent UAW agreements. As flogging was eliminated by negotiation productivity in turn greatly suffered. A bailout without corporal punishment is just limp wristed stimulous like that used in Carthage.
 
Quote from Mkt.Cap:

nonsense.

Agree. The Great Depression saw GDP fall 30%, and unemployment persisted in double digits for an entire decade. Anyone calling this the worst crisis for 1600 years needs to find the nearest cliff and jump off it to collect their Darwin Award.
 
This article seems to be fabricated. It is circulating around the net at various sites, however everytime without a link to the original article at bloomberg and with obvious spelling errors.

A search at bloomberg.com for this article returned no result.
 
Quote from bond tr4der:

Plus, deflation is much easier when effort and materials actually had to be inputted to make money.

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Not true. The Romans went to less and less precious metals in their coins as time went by. Their empire ended with horrible devaluing of the currency.
 
Yes, and lets not forget about how the giant retailers like Rome-mart were importing less and less barbarian made goods. Even though the Barbarians were running at a surplus, when Romans stopped shopping at Rome-mart, the barbarians got mad and sacked rome.

It all started with the price of horse feed that was priced at 4 denarius per gallon....i mean per bag...one summer when horse feed speculators drove the price of feed up...then the price of feed dropped down into the 1.50 range when the recession hit.


But i think we can trace the start of it to when the big investment bank, Rome-Sterns collapsed and was bought out by Julius-Cesaer Morgan (Also known as J.C. Morgan at the time.)
 
the founders of America wanted during the renaisance when ROME and GREEK philosophy empired building was idolized.

many of the institutions in the US like senate influenced by ROMAN governance.

that war and years decades or century of war and internal conflict caused th fall of Rome. the population of ROMAN citizens actually fell.

war has taken down many empires over the centuries.




Quote from bond tr4der:

Worse financial crisis in 1500 years (Update1)

By Andreas Hippin

Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) -- The United States is facing the worse financial crisis in 1532 years, according to a survey of economist conducted by Bloomberg News. "One must look back to the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 A.D," said Charles Fatkins of RBS Financial Markets. "There is a real sense of fear that America is on the verge of collapse. Forget the Great Depression, we're facing a new Medieval Ages."

Fall of the Roman Empire

The traditional date of the fall of the Roman Empire is September 4, 476 when Romulus Augustus, the last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire was deposed by Odoacer.

The decay of trade and industry was a lead cause of Rome's fall. There was a decline in agriculture production as well as declines in land values, sometimes as a direct result of barbarian invasions. The chief cause of the agricultural decline was high taxation on the marginal land, driving it out of cultivation. Taxation was spurred by the huge military budget and was thus ‘indirectly’ the result of the barbarian invasion.

Blood in the streets

Not everyone is concerned about the financial crisis. John Starnes, a 33-year-old stock trader based out of Glendale Heights, Ill, believes the bad news has already been priced in and that now is the time to buy stocks. "No one cares about the unemployment because it is only 6.7 percent, which is only 0.7 percent higher than the historic range of for to six percent," said the stock trader. Five hundred thousand claims is just chicken soup when you consider the American work force is over 150 million. Also, the market [has] priced this in already when stocks tanked last Monday."

But not everyone knows how stocks work. w3rd.

To contact the reporter on this story: Andreas Hippin in Washington at ahippin@media.ppt.gov

Last Updated: December 6, 2008 18:26 EST
 
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