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To: Amy J who wrote (9540)	3/11/2003 3:37:49 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 306849

I think the auto industry experience consolidation for the first time after the bubble burst in 1929, similar to what we recently saw happen with compaq & hp. There was a great depression from 1873-1879 that corresponded with some froth in railroad spending. The problem is that the recovery was stalled due to the gold standard- there wasn't enough gold apparently. I know people on SI like to compare this mkt with the 30s, but it seems like the level of inventions today that are driving the boom are earlier on if we try to map it to the cycles in the industrial revolution, no? There was this depression in the 1870s and then another recession in the early 1900s that corresponded with the aftermath of the guilded age. Railroads (steel etc) and electricity drove the cycles then, Cars were later on. boom: eslarp.uiuc.edu bust: u-s-history.com ("most of the major railroads failed")