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Re:Why ancient Rome matters to the modern world by empath75 on Thursday October 08, 2015 @09:40AM (#10352653)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banking_crises

Note all of the entries that start with "Panic of.." from well before the collapse of Bretton Woods.

Even the Great Recession wasn't that bad compared to what we had before.

Re:Why ancient Rome matters to the modern world by PepeGomez on Thursday October 08, 2015 @10:36AM (#10353014)
It shows much fewer crises before and virtually zero during the Bretton woods. If you click to some of them, you will see that most of them happened when the exchange to gold/silver was limited and people believed there isn't enough precious metals to back all the money, or the gold or silver standard was actually abandoned by some country.