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Apr 17, 2009

Time Never Passes




...it simply amasses

Guess the date, then click on"Read More":

"The cry of hard times & scarcity of money, which is heard in every part of our country, is not without cause...The Banks, in loaning so profusely, have acted most unwisely, and along with their debtors, must now expiate, by privation and retrenchment, for their ill-timed liberality. Nothing but a combination of Industry and Economy, with reasonable forbearance by creditors, can save from ruin thousands, who till lately basked in the sunshine of prosperity, and have rushed heedlessly into debt."

-- The Southern Recorder, Feb. 22, 1820, pg. 3.



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Chris Bray - 4/18/2009

The other thing that keeps showing up in the Southern Recorder in 1820-1821: What do we do about all these goddamn pirates?


Jeremy Young - 4/18/2009

I thought it was Veblen, a century later. Everything old is new again...