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Roman credit crunch
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#1
11-30-2008, 01:36 AM
...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...

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11-30-2008, 07:30 AM
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.

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11-30-2008, 11:49 AM
Interesting article, but this gives hope, if the Romans could survive a credit crunch then we can too survive Big Grin
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11-30-2008, 12:01 PM
It says we do not know how they got out of the credit crunch..... Confusedhock:
The invaded and conquered their way out of it...or am I missing something!
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11-30-2008, 01:49 PM
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?
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11-30-2008, 10:29 PM
Yes indeed!
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12-01-2008, 01:00 AM
How do you say "bailout" in Latin? That's probably what happened.
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12-01-2008, 01:52 AM
Bogus?
Just a guess.
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12-03-2008, 08:41 PM
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:
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12-03-2008, 11:48 PM
Caesar made great efforts to solve the debt problems of the Republic.
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12-04-2008, 03:04 AM
...and spent quite a bit of his own money to try to fix things, if the reports are true....
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12-04-2008, 07:33 PM
So I keep reading anyway....
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12-04-2008, 09:38 PM
OTOH if you appropriate rival'sl property and sell it off, is it really your money?
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12-05-2008, 01:17 PM
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?
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12-05-2008, 01:52 PM
Nope, not me. It's not always best to be right. :wink:
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