The Other Great Train Robbery: The Strousberg Affair
Note sull'episodio
Trains are great and we need more of them. But you know what's not? Railway scandals! Diana and Adel learn about the Strousberg affair, a 19th century railway scandal that acted as a catalyst for a major financial crisis and signaled the less than auspicious birth of the Romanian railways.
Trigger warning for Bismarck and the Long Depression (cries in Millennial tears). Monarchy fanboys/girls/nbs might also want to proceed with caution.
Sources:
Lessons from the Long Depression, by Steve Davies, Institute of Economic Affairs
Crisis Chronicles: The Long Depression and the Panic of 1873, Thomas Klitgaard and James Narron, Liberty Street Economics
Money, Morals, and the Pillars of Bismarck's Society, Fritz Stern, Central European History, Volume 3, Issue 1-2, March 1970 , pp. 49 - 72
Bierce, Eminescu and Their Investigations of the Railway Business, Lucian-Vasile Szabo, Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, Ephemerides ; Jun2013, Vol. 58, Issue 1, pp. 119-132
Music:
Lo-Fi Hip-Hop 03 by WinnieTheMoog