The Panic of 1907 kicked off the age of vertigo, when western nations doubted the future and the old order went to war.
The Roaring Twenties ushered in the Dirty Thirties, followed by World War II.
The Summer of Love spiraled into stagflation and an oil crisis. Inflation whipped the economy.
Outrageous real estate prices and equally foolish lending strangled the Japanese miracle in its bed.
All burst bubbles follow the same playbook. But believers in gold said it would rise eventually, and eventually it did.
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