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	1907
		known as the 1907 Bankers' Panic, was a financial crisis in the United States.
		The 1907 panic was the fourth panic in 34 years.
		In perpetuating the rioters’ perspectives as the central story of 1907, Canadian history still has not adequately included those who were excluded through these anti-Asian acts.
	www.lycos.com /info/1907.html (587 words)

	EH.Net Encyclopedia: Panic of 1907
		The Panic of 1907 was the last and most severe of the bank panics that plagued the National Banking Era of the United States.
		Bank panics were characterized by the widespread appearance of bank runs, attempts by depositors to simultaneously withdraw their deposits from the banking system.
		Many accounts of the Panic of 1907 cite Monday, October 21, as the beginning of the crisis among the trust companies and the true onset of the panic.
	eh.net /encyclopedia/article/moen.panic.1907 (3570 words)

	AllRefer.com - panic (Money, Banking, And Investment) - Encyclopedia
		Panics are characterized by a general rush of investors to convert their assets into cash, with runs on banks and a rapid fall of the securities market.
		The panic of 1837 was much more severe; it was brought on primarily by irresponsible financial operations in Western lands.
		Confidence was not restored until after 1933, and the effects of the panic were felt throughout the Great Depression of the 1930s.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/panic.html (453 words)

	Panic of 1907 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Panic of 1907 was a serious economic downturn in the United States.
		It was the fourth panic in 34 years.
		One of the contributing factors of the Panic involved F.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Panic_of_1907 (527 words)

	Taxes and the New World Order
		Forty years later John Pierpont Morgan created the Panic of 1907 where the stock market fell nearly 50% from its peak in 1906, the economy was in recession, and there were numerous runs on banks and trust companies.
		The primary cause of the Panic of 1907 was a retraction of loans by some banks that began in New York and soon spread across the nation, leading to the closings of banks and businesses.
		J.P. Morgan's real feat and service to Rothschild in the Panic of 1907 was that he created a mood in America to believe that a central bank would prevent such a panic from occurring again and thus became receptive to a central bank.
	www.jeremiahproject.com /trashingamerica/taxes.html (3222 words)

	panic. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Perhaps the earliest panic of modern capitalism occurred during 1720 in France and England.
		The first major panic in the United States came in 1819, after the War of 1812.
		That conflict continued and was again reflected in the crises that came in the panics of 1893 and 1907.
	www.bartleby.com /65/pa/panic.html (391 words)

	GREAT EPOCHS IN AMERICAN HISTORY
		The intent of this expedient, never adopted since the panic of 1893, was to help out hard-prest banks through loan of the cash resources of their neighbors; but its result, in 1907, as in 1893, was to bring about general suspension of cash payments in the Clearing-House.
		Before the panic of 1907 was over the New York banks had $88,420,000 of such loan certificates in use, as against a maximum of $38,280,000 in the panic of 1893, and the loan certificates remained in use during twenty-two weeks, as against only nineteen weeks' duration in the earlier panic.
		The panic of 1907 was unlike the panic of 1893, which followed a period of uncertainty and misgiving, leading to acquiescence, on the part of the community at large, in the certainty of prolonged reaction and depression.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/topic/preservation/epochs/vol10/pg193.htm (1779 words)

	Calendar Research Inc.: Autumn Panics A Calendar Phenomenon
		Panics were originally ascribed to the god Pan simply because there were no obvious fundamental causes for their occurrence.
		The correlation between the annual lunar calendar and the timing of the three 20th century panics as well as the supportive data from the 19th century does not prove that an annual lunar calendar position is the cause of those panics.
		The annual lunar model for panics points to the 27th and 28th days of the lunar month as the dark days, yet that is only true in the autumn season, the 6th or 7th lunar month.
	www.calendarresearch.com /autumnpanics.html (3022 words)

	J.P. Morgan - MSN Encarta
		His greatest accomplishment came in 1907 when he brought bankers together to stem a financial panic that threatened the U.S. banking system.
		Morgan is perhaps best known for helping prevent a banking panic in 1907.
		A banking panic occurs when a bank’s customers begin to doubt the safety of their deposits and start withdrawing money in panic, a process also known as a run on a bank.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761569415 (861 words)

	Kitco Commentaries
		As one historian put it, "The financial fires that were intended to ruin Heinze and the trust companies quickly roared out of control, and the Panic of 1907 became a nondiscriminatory economic catastrophe for the entire nation." The spark for the Panic of 1907 may have been a personal vendetta gone awry.
		The Panic of 1907 was not the worst financial crisis in American finance, but it was critically important because the forces in favor of creating a national bank - the Federal Reserve Bank - would gain strength, and the tide of public opinion increasingly supported the idea.
		The Panic of 1907 broke Heinze at the age of 37.
	www.kitco.com /ind/Mayer/printerfriendly/feb212005p.html (1665 words)

	bank panic of 1907 - 2nd Anxiety (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As a result, there were frequent economic depressions and financial panics, and the Bank Panic of 1907 finally convinced the public that a central bank was necessary.
		In the fall of 1907 Wall Street was rocked by financial scandals and a major bank panic in which many depositors tried to withdraw their money at once.
		Sparks' call to President Theodore Roosevelt in December 1907 for federal troops to police a strike action was precipitated by the mine owners, who in the midst of a national bank panic, paid the...
	anxiety.qodisehu.info /dir2/bank-panic-of-1907.html (828 words)

	Panic on Wall Street: A History of America's Financial Disasters (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The financial panics analyzed in this book illustrate the complexity of such events and that the causes are varied: political, military, economic, and even psychological.
		Sobel concludes by saying that although financial panics have proven as devastating in some ways as war, and while much research has been carried out on war and its causes, little research has been done on financial panics.
		Panic on Wall Street stands as a solid foundation for later research on the topic.
	www.beardbooks.com /panic_on_wall_street.html (741 words)

	Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis - The Region - F.Augustus Heinze of Montana and the Panic of 1907 (August 1989) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is generally accepted that the Panic of 1907—a credit crunch that spread from New York to the whole country, closing banks and businesses—was the major impetus for the formation of the Federal Reserve System.
		While the nation had considered central banking systems in the past, it was the severity of the Panic of 1907 (the fourth in 34 years) that inspired congressional action leading to establishment of the Fed.
		Indeed, she says those problems alone were possibly enough to touch off a financial panic that year just as they had in years past—but such a possibility does not eliminate the evidence of a personal vendetta gone awry.
	minneapolisfed.org /pubs/region/89-08/REG898C.cfm (832 words)

	Panic of 1907
		In the summer of 1907, the American economy was showing signs of weakness as a number of business and Wall Street brokerages went bankrupt.
		Edison used deceptive demonstrations of the supposed increased dangers of AC and Morgan had spread rumors in Wall Street that Westinghouse was insolvent, causing Westinghouse stock to collapse, along with the stock of the Westinghouse backers.
		Memorabilia related to Panic of 1907 is at auction on eBay.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h952.html (648 words)

	[CTRL] The Great Financial Panics in History
		It was the Panic of 1907 that lead to the creation of the Federal Reserve and a central banking system in the wake a massive bank failures due to cash drains that headed west to settle insurance claims.
		Although the degree of such panics differs from time to time, as is the case with all boom periods, the root causes are merely a minor variation of a standard set of circumstances.
		It is a common threat which runs through each panic and its cause is simply due to an over-concentration of capital into one sector or one nation that leads to an over-valuation.
	www.mail-archive.com /ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg35532.html (2875 words)

	Rhyolite - Nevada Ghost Town
		The financial panic of 1907 took its toll on the town and businesses started to shut down.
		The panic of 1907 provided the coup de grace from which the town could not recover.
		The devastating effects of the panic did not affect Rhyolite until the spring of 1908.
	www.ghosttowns.com /states/nv/rhyolite.html (1074 words)

	Working Paper 99-16 - Abstract
		The 1907 panic displayed a less severe output contraction than other national banking era panics, and national bank deposit and loan data suggest only a limited impairment to intermediation through these institutions.
		We argue that the Panic of 1907 was substantially different from earlier National Banking Era panics.
		In the aftermath of the 1907 panic, New York bankers saw heightened danger to the financial system arising from "riskier" institutions outside of their clearinghouse and beyond their direct influence.
	www.frbatlanta.org /invoke.cfm?objectid=83FD24A0-9AF0-11D5-898400508BB89A83&method=display (464 words)

	Financial Panic - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Panic, Financial, in economics, a crisis condition, marked by overpowering alarm, in financial or commercial circles, leading to a sudden and...
		Asian Stock Market, Black Friday, 1869, Black Monday, 1987, Great Depression, panic of 1837, panic of 1857, panic of 1873, panic of 1893, panic of...
		The financial panic of 1907 resulted in the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.
	encarta.msn.com /Financial_Panic.html (141 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / A LION IN THE STREET
		Morgan and his associates, not only in that panic but in all panics and at all times, so control and dominate the financial situation in New York that they can control it as they please?” Perkins leaped from his chair, pounding the committee table with clenched fists.
		When, earlier in the panic, one banker had protested that his reserve was already down to 26 per cent, Morgan had said with scorn: “You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
		The Panic of 1907, although it was followed by a brief industrial depression, had many salutary results.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1957/4/1957_4_32.shtml (5237 words)

	Timeline 1905-1907
		1907 Jun 27, Valerie Cossart, actress (The Hartmans), was born in London.
		1907 Feb 28, Milton Caniff, cartoonist (Terry and the Pirates), was born in Hillsboro, Ohio.
		1907 May, The idea of a day set apart every year to honor motherhood is credited to Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia, who, in 1907, suggested the wearing of carnations on the second Sunday in May to honor mothers.
	timelines.ws /20thcent/1905_1907.HTML (14656 words)

	- Ja, det är ju märkligt att människor inte tänker på vad som hände 1907
		Pierpont Morgan, stemmed the Panic of 1907, Acting, in effect, as lender of last resort from his Wall Street office, he was briefly feted before Americans realised the danger of having such power vested in one man.
		The panic of 1907 inspired Congress to create the Federal Reserve in 1913.
		The Fed was supposed to prevent panics by making loans to solvent but threatened banks.
	www.internetional.se /1907.htm (419 words)

	HistoryLink Essay:Grays Harbor Currency saves Aberdeen banks on November 7, 1907.
		On November 7, 1907, three Aberdeen bankers issue private bank notes dubbed Grays Harbor Currency to counter the effects of the Panic of 1907.
		The financial panic they ignited in 1907 was soon felt on the streets of Aberdeen.
		When the financial panic subsided several months later, all of the certificates were redeemed for legal tender and carried to a mill in Hoquiam, where the Grays Harbor Currency was burned.
	www.historylink.org /essays/printer_friendly/index.cfm?file_id=7389 (444 words)

	Educate Yourself - J.P. Morgan - Savior -- The Panic of 1907 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This week we continue our discussion of the Panic of 1907 and the man who, single-handedly, turned things around, J.P. Morgan.
		But it was extraordinary that the Treasury of the largest emerging economy in the world had to transfer funds to private bankers in order to prevent a financial collapse.
		The rumor was rampant that the bankers had orchestrated most of the panic themselves in order to make speculative profits.
	www.buyandhold.com /bh/en/education/122499.html (1151 words)

	panic - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		PANIC [panic] crisis in financial and economic conditions, marked by public loss of confidence in the financial structure.
		What to do when SSRIs fail: eight strategies for optimizing treatment of panic disorder.
		Panic disorder and agoraphobia in consecutively referred children and adolescents.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-panic.html (543 words)

	Thomas Law
		In 1907, an economic downturn gripped the United States.
		It became known as the Panic of 1907.
		The Panic of 1907 prompted the federal government to implement the Federal Reserve System.
	www.ohiohistorycentral.org /entry.php?rec=1426 (200 words)

	Why didn't the United States establish a central bank until after the panic of 1907?
		Monetary historians conventionally trace the establishment of the Federal Reserve System in 1913 to the turbulence of the Panic of 1907.
		The 1907 financial crisis focused on New York City trust companies, a relatively unregulated intermediary outside the control of the New York Clearinghouse.
		Prior panics struck primarily national banks that were within the influence of the clearinghouses, and the private clearinghouses provided liquidity to member institutions that were perceived as solvent.
	ideas.repec.org /p/fip/fedawp/99-16.html (617 words)

	Federal Reserve System, Jekyll island, History, Aldrich Plan, J. Pierpont Morgan, Historical, Dr. A. Piatt Andrew, ...
		In October of 1907 several banking firms, starting with the Knickerbocker Trust Company of New York, collapsed as depositors withdrew funds for fear of unwise investments and misuse of money.
		In the fall of 1907 the United States was in a recession, it's banking system lacked a lender of last resort mechanism, and an intricate network of directorships, loans, and collateral bonded the fate of many financial institutions together.
		President Theodore Roosevelt, while the panic of 1907 transpired, was on a hunting trip in Louisiana.
	www.jekyllislandhistory.com /federalreserve.shtml (1182 words)

	Separating Money and the State, Part 1: Eighty Years of Destruction
		But, as Wall Street analyst and historian James Grant wrote, it took the Panic of 1907 to produce "a critical mass of disillusionment with the financial system as it was."
		Chase National Bank economist Benjamin Anderson described the Panic of 1907 as "almost purely a money panic" that had "pulled us up before the boom had gone too far."
		Pierpont Morgan came to the rescue in November 1907, orchestrating a deal that saved the trust companies.
	www.fff.org /freedom/1094e.asp (1427 words)

	FDIC: Learning Bank
		The panic is brief but significant in its financial implications.
		The panic exposes weaknesses in the financial system, particularly the inability of banks to acquire currency during emergencies.
		This act passes in an attempt to bring stability to financial markets after the Panic of 1907 exposes weakness in an uncontrolled system.
	www.fdic.gov /about/learn/learning/when/19-1919.html (819 words)

	Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis - The Region - Born of a Panic: Forming the Fed System ( August 1988) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Essentially, the evolution of the Fed didn't begin on Dec. 23, 1913; rather, the Banking Panic of 1907, the most severe of four national banking panics that had occurred in the previous 34 years, was the primary inspiration for major banking reform.
		Thousands of men were thrown out of work, thousands of firms went into bankruptcy, the trade of the country came to a standstill, and all this happened simply because the credit system of the country had ceased to operate.
		Banks in the earlier part of the century needed the flexibility provided by rediscounting if they were to meet the demands of the economy and avoid banking panics.
	woodrow.mpls.frb.fed.us /pubs/region/88-08/reg888a.cfm (2188 words)

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