Liaquat Ahamed

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238 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 27 Jul

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Merryn Talks Money · Are We Repeating the Biggest Mistake of 1873? · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

So they'd expected 19 million people to turn up.

Oh, these great exhibitions...

were giant affairs.

I mean, it started out with the UK in the 1850s, but there'd been one in Paris and then another one in the UK.

And this was Vienna's attempt to say, we're a serious country and we're a serious city.

They'd expected 19 million.

They'd torn down half the palace gardens and established pavilions, and only 7 million people turned up.

That's a lot of people.

It was a series of minor disasters, a cholera outbreak, and the cab drivers of Vienna decided to go out on strike.

Yeah.

And as you said, throughout the 1850s and 60s, he'd been saying, oh, this is it.

A crash is coming.

And I mean, it got to a stage where even his friends started pulling his leg, which he didn't react well to.

That you're always predicting crashes?

Yes, and actually you get this sort of false period of calm.

So it crashes in Vienna, and everyone says there's going to be a global disaster, and then suddenly nothing happens.

and you get a period of three, four months where nothing happens.

So they said, okay, maybe Vienna was just overpriced.

And it was a local incident.

And everywhere else, the earnings will rise to match the price.

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