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you know, ace, this kind of dilletante nonsense doesn't help your case, either in particular or in general.
for a stodgy old, but comprehensive, account of 1893, have a look at this:
# Unemployment, Unrest, and Relief in the United States during the Depression of 1893-97
# Samuel Rezneck
# The Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 61, No. 4 (Aug., 1953), pp. 324-345
if you have access to jstor, it's there. if you dont, email me and i can send you a copy. i'll save it, just in case.
basically, dippin's right.
the reason the gold rush was such a big deal had to do with the monetary system of the time, which was fundamentally different than it is now. as is most everything else.
the main parallel between then and now has to do with the difficulty the american state has in formulating coherent responses to depression.
but that's it.
there's no there there, ace.
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