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by saenns 1186 days ago
not really. more like three bursts: great depression, 1980, 2008.
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History didn't start there of course. There were many such failures going all the way back to 1700s in the U.S:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banking_crises https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1873