Shane Parrish
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20,679 appearances
49 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 15 Sep
Shane Parrish’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Rockefeller never wrote to his father and never spoke a word publicly against him.
To strangers, he described him only as a fine, upstanding man.
But he had spent his whole life becoming that man's exact opposite, a husband who came home at the same hour every night to the same wife forever.
Their household on Euclid Avenue, with its prayers and its penny fines and its account books, was many things.
But underneath them all, it could be seen as a 30-year argument with his father.
On a Thursday morning in September 1873, the largest bank in America failed.
J. Cook & Company was the bank that had sold the bonds that financed the Union side of the Civil War.
Most Americans considered it as solid as the U.S.
government itself.
But Cook had lately sunk enormous sums into building a second transcontinental railroad that wasn't paying off.
When the money ran out, the bank had to shut its doors.
And the news set off a run on all the banks.
Depositors rushed to pull their savings out of every bank until those failed too.
The stock exchange in New York closed its doors for 10 whole days, something that had never happened before.
It would become known as the Panic of 1873.
And that panic would become a depression that ground on for six long years.
The price of crude oil sank to 48 cents a barrel, which in some towns made it cheaper than water.
For any of the remaining struggling oil refiners, the Depression was the end.
For Standard Oil, it was the clearance sale.
As Rockefeller would later say, the strong feed during depressions.
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