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They were heading up towards large catastrophy. In fact.

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But what kind of doom did they anticipate in the roaring 20s? I guess Upton Sinclair wasn't very happy, but that's not the same as crises everywhere you turn.

That would require historical research the person I responded to did not bothered to do. Like at all, they just assumed what people wrote at the time

And factually both 20s and 39s ended up in massive unprecedented catastrophes.


The Great Depression began in 1929.

October 1929. Tenuous.

A reminder that technically correct is the best kind of correct.



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