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Roman credit crunch - Gaius Decius Aquilius - 11-30-2008
...and what have the Romans ever done for us?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008 ... ic-lecture
For whatever it's worth...
I am putting this in Off Topic since... Oh never mind...
Ralph I.
Re: Roman credit crunch - Narukami - 11-30-2008
Interesting article.
He claims that the dictatorship of Sulla is not related to the Roman credit crisis, but I wonder if the two are not somehow related, if one prepared the ground for the other to take root, so to speak.
I also wonder what Neil Faulkner's take on this would be -- this seems to be perfect for the Marxist school of Ancient History. Perhaps he will chime in at some point in some venue. :roll: :?
Thanks for posting the article Ralph, though I think it may actually be more on topic than you think.
:wink:
Narukami
Re: Roman credit crunch - Fennia - 11-30-2008
Interesting article, but this gives hope, if the Romans could survive a credit crunch then we can too survive
Re: Roman credit crunch - Gaius Julius Caesar - 11-30-2008
It says we do not know how they got out of the credit crunch.....
hock: The invaded and conquered their way out of it...or am I missing something!
Re: Roman credit crunch - M. Demetrius - 11-30-2008
And so...just like the Great Depression of the 20s and 30s, then? WW2 ended that one.
Scary thought, GJC. Quite possibly true, but scary just the same, eh?
Re: Roman credit crunch - Gaius Julius Caesar - 11-30-2008
Yes indeed!
Re: Roman credit crunch - john m roberts - 12-01-2008
How do you say "bailout" in Latin? That's probably what happened.
Re: Roman credit crunch - M. Demetrius - 12-01-2008
Bogus?
Just a guess.
Re: Roman credit crunch - Iagoba - 12-03-2008
Well, the roman rulers (legitimate or not, depending of your side) had a looong tradition in "sheated" money when there wasn´t enough silver/gold to pay soldiers. :roll:
Cheeky-moneys. :lol:
Re: Roman credit crunch - Gaius Julius Caesar - 12-03-2008
Caesar made great efforts to solve the debt problems of the Republic.
Re: Roman credit crunch - M. Demetrius - 12-04-2008
...and spent quite a bit of his own money to try to fix things, if the reports are true....
Re: Roman credit crunch - Gaius Julius Caesar - 12-04-2008
So I keep reading anyway....
Re: Roman credit crunch - M. Demetrius - 12-04-2008
OTOH if you appropriate rival'sl property and sell it off, is it really your money?
Re: Roman credit crunch - Carlton Bach - 12-05-2008
Quote:OTOH if you appropriate rival'sl property and sell it off, is it really your money?
Are you going to tell him it isn't?
Re: Roman credit crunch - M. Demetrius - 12-05-2008
Nope, not me. It's not always best to be right. :wink: