Panic of 1893
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Oct 23, 2026
KateHOST
And so shares and stock prices begin to fall to their lowest point since 1900.
KateHOST
And if you remember, right before that, there was the Panic of 1893 and the Panic of 1897 that occurred.
KateHOST
So we're getting into a similar sort of cycle here again of other stuff that Pinchon has made reference to.
KateHOST
Then on October 24th, only 10 days after Otto's cornering attempt, The following institutions had failed.
Josh GeigerHOST
So New York was only won by 1% if New York turned Cleveland's president.
Josh GeigerHOST
And I mean, the panic of 1893, which was, I mean, massive thing, powers the populists, free silver, all of these things that were so vital toward kind of the end of the Gilded Age, was powered in large part by decisions that Benjamin Harrison made.
Josh GeigerHOST
That's right, the McKinley
Lance GeigerHOST
Tariff,
Andrew DonaldsonHOST
always
Stephen PopickGUEST
i recommend everybody read up on the panic of 1893.
Andrew DonaldsonHOST
perfect one or or go watch gilded age because they're neck deep in that bad boy right in the season and what we
Stephen PopickGUEST
also saw and we're seeing some of this right now in the politics right um
Thomas Wiborg-ThuneHOST
The fair's ending, tragic as it was, arrived against a backdrop of a far larger catastrophe already well underway.
Thomas Wiborg-ThuneHOST
The panic of 1893 had begun that spring, months before the assassination set off in February by the bankruptcy of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad.
Thomas Wiborg-ThuneHOST
a company whose collapse, under the weight of its own reckless expansion, triggered a chain reaction through an American railroad industry that had spent a decade financing itself on borrowed money and optimistic projections of traffic.
Thomas Wiborg-ThuneHOST
The Northern Pacific, the Union Pacific, and the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe followed the reading into receivership, and the fear that gripped holders of railroad bonds spread quickly into the banking system.
Shane WatersHOST
The same families who had been enslaved on this land were now sharecropping it under different contracts that produced the same poverty.
Shane WatersHOST
The Panic of 1893 had made it worse.
Shane WatersHOST
Day labor, sawmill work, domestic service.
Shane WatersHOST
Neighbors knew each other's business.