There is an eclipse to occur tomorrow, exactly on the solstice.
There is a book that deals with these following manias and crashes.
Dutch, Tulip Bulb Bubble 1636
British, South Sea Bubble 1720
French, Mississippi Bubble 1720
US, Late 1920s Stock Price Bubble 1927-1929
Mexico, surge in bank loans to Mexico and other developing countries 1970s
Japan, real estate and stocks bubble 1985-1989
Finland, Norway and Sweden bubble in real estate and stocks 1985-1989
Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and several other Asian countries 1992-1997
Mexico, surge in foreign investment 1990-1993
US, stocks 1995-2000
Read more at Suite101:
Review -- Manias Panics and Crashes 5th Edition: History of Financial Crises by Charles Kindleberger & Robert Aliber http://www.suite101.com/content/review-manias-panics-and-crashes-5th-edition-a97354#ixzz18bNQLYWR
Geoff Chester of the US Naval Observatory inspected a list of eclipses going back 2000 years. "Since Year 1, I can only find one previous instance of an eclipse matching the same calendar date as the solstice, and that is
1638 DEC 21
Excerpt from other blog
OK....
ReplyDeleteA solstice eclipse and two months afterward the Tulip Mania was kaput?! Holy farking sheit!
Also, I thought you said these types of occurrences happened every 300 years, but Chester says it happened only in 1638? Do they just hit close every 300 years?
I need some help with your graph (what's that track, mentions of the word 'eclipse' in the title of books over the last 500 years?), and what's the significance of including all those other bubbles?
The Tulip Mania was ended a year before the solstice eclipse, by Governmental decree. I keep going back to the Tulip Mania because I think it is of "the same degree" as the current mania. Extreme.
ReplyDeleteThe Google books thing is a new thing Google has come up with, and includes all the words in the books methinks. The word eclipse and bubbles and crashes is highly correlated. take it for what it's worth, it sure is curious.
Steveo, as of now, the US alone dwarfs the South Sea Bubble. It's not even close. Still, the manipulate goes on.
ReplyDeleteThere's a line in Pete Townsend song "Give Blood", where a guy says in the background:
We're heading for the day of reckoning, I'm telling ya.
Its all building up to something,
Something that can only be redeemed with fire
I think the American stockholder is going to give gallons and gallons of blood by the time this one is over.
Not just the stockholders....all the taxpayers.
ReplyDelete