Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. This is an examination of banking panics in the United States. A banking crisis is a financial crisis that affects banking activity. Banking crises include bank runs, which affect single banks; banking panics, which affect many banks; and systemic banking crises, in which a country experiences a large number of defaults and financial institutions and corporations face great difficulties repaying contracts. Covers the following years: 1792, 1796-1797, 1819, 1825, 1837, 1847, 1857, 1866, 1873, 1884, 1890, 1893, 1896, 1901, 1907, 1910-1911, 1929-1939, and 2007-2010.
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