Liaquat Ahamed
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 27 Jul
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And there was another crash in Britain when a discount house, the first one of the big discount houses went under.
But they were all localized.
And there were even wars.
There was civil war in the United States.
There was the Crimean War.
There was Prussia versus Austria.
The economy was surprisingly resilient despite these little hiccups.
billion, which would be equivalent to $1.2, $1.3 trillion today.
And it was the Rothschilds who were the centerpiece of that because they had an incredible reach.
They raised two bond issues, which raised a billion dollars.
But the most important thing was they were, in one case, three times oversubscribed and the other case, 12 times oversubscribed.
And where was that money coming from?
Well, that was the astounding thing.
People suddenly realized that all this money that's been in the woodwork and is just looking for a, if you can only provide it with a return, will come out of the woodwork.
Because until then, government bond yields had gone down to 3% in the UK, 4% in France.
The sort of revelation...
that you could raise $12 billion from the bond issue.
It just got everyone so excited.
The London Stock Exchange went crazy.
And also in the US, railroads were, it was a perfectly rational boom until then.
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