I think that the 1929 stock market crash or the great crash, the stunning crash, the crash-out, or what ever myriad of names it has been called. It seems relevant today for obvious reasons, 1929. The events that unfolded in 1929 with the economic chaos set the tone for the 1930's which in my opinion was the strangest and most tense decade of the 20th century. Times seem tense again. The rise of militarism and conservative governments struggling to solve the economic failures of years before. Cutting thier noses to spite their, well you know... Rise in poverty, the rise against communism both seemed to increase in 1930. Actually before, in 1928 with Mussolini but nonetheless it found its pricarious stride in the 30's.
Could the economic mess we are in now start a world-wide shift in government policy as it did in 1930? Could the pendulum swing violently again in the opposite direction?
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