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Brad Smith: “The Great Depression in 1929 was almost exactly the same…”

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Published | Video Starts at 49:50

That were taken, the problems that were created, they're all gone. So if you look at the Great Recession in 2008. It was 79 years after the start. Of The Great Depression in 1929 was almost exactly the same amount of time before the great panic in 1857. the first real global economic panic. You can go back with these 80. Year intervals to the South Sea bubble, which was in the uk, or even the Tulip bubble in the Netherlands. (49:50–50:03)

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