{"id":1226,"date":"2007-09-23T15:32:55","date_gmt":"2007-09-23T19:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2007-09-23T15:32:55","modified_gmt":"2007-09-23T19:32:55","slug":"the-panic-of-1907","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/?p=1226","title":{"rendered":"The Panic of 1907"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently became embroiled in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=30643134&#038;postID=4885182924796549956\">discussion of the recent Fed Rate cut<\/a>, in which a casual mention of J.P.Morgan and his role in resolving the Panic of 1907 became a surprisingly controversial issue.<\/p>\n<p>I might put together a short piece at some point regarding the Panic &#8211; until then I will content myself with listing references:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bosfed.org\/about\/pubs\/panicof1.pdf\">Panic of 1907<\/a>, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frbatlanta.org\/filelegacydocs\/wp0623a.pdf\">Tallman &#038; Moen, 2007<\/a>, Role of Clearinghouse Certificates<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frbatlanta.org\/filelegacydocs\/wp9916.pdf\">Moen &#038; Tallman, 1999<\/a> Differentiation of 1907 Panic from others<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frbatlanta.org\/filelegacydocs\/wp959.pdf\">Moen &#038; Tallman, 1995<\/a>, Comparison of New York vs. Chicago Clearinghouses in 1907<\/p>\n<p><em>Wall Street, A History<\/em>, Charles R. Geisst 1997, ISBN 0-19-511512-0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update, 2007-10-15<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frbatlanta.org\/filelegacydocs\/ern390_tallman.pdf\">Tallman &#038; Moen, 1990<\/a>, Lessons from the Panic of 1907<\/p>\n<p><em>The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market&#8217;s Perfect Storm<\/em>, R.F.Bruner &#038; Sean D. Carr, ISBN 978-0-470-15263-8<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/55\/15a.html\">Theodore Roosevelt\u00a0<font size=\"-1\">(1858\u20131919).<\/font>\u00a0\u00a0An Autobiography.\u00a0\u00a0<font size=\"-1\">1913.<\/font><\/a> (Appendix A deals with the US Steel takeover of Tennessee Coal &#038; Iron, which apparently became a political football).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update, 2007-10-16<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Football indeed! <a href=\"http:\/\/tigger.uic.edu\/~rjensen\/rj0025.htm\">Richard Jensen claims<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In October 1911, Taft&#8217;s Justice Department charged US Steel with antitrust violations in the TCI deal&#8211;leaving TR&#8217;s integrity under a cloud. That was the last straw for Roosevelt, as he decided to challenge Taft for the Republican nomination for president.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Update, 2010-7-6<\/b>: Mr Joseph S Tracy, Executive Vice President of the Federal Reserve Bank of<br \/>\nNew York, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bis.org\/review\/r100707e.pdf\">suggests<\/a> that the Credit Crunch be referred to as the &#8220;Panic of 2007&#8221;, given all the similarities in the trigger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently became embroiled in a discussion of the recent Fed Rate cut, in which a casual mention of J.P.Morgan and his role in resolving the Panic of 1907 became a surprisingly controversial issue. I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-external-papers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}