Are We Living in a 1929 Economy?

Are we repeating 1929… or rhyming with it? The Roaring Twenties were fueled by debt, booming tech, speculation, and extreme inequality. Sound familiar? This episode compares the three core triggers of the Great Depression with the world we’ve built going into 2029: leverage, AI hype, global debt, and a dangerously familiar wealth gap. We look at what’s actually similar, what’s fundamentally different, and whether today’s guardrails (FDIC, SEC, QE, fiat, global markets) are enough to prevent history from looping back with a modern twist. -- ⚡ Hire pre-vetted senior engineers with G2i. Fast. G2i connects you with contract or full-time engineers who’ve already passed deep technical interviews, saving you weeks of hiring time. Get a $1,500 credit when you mention Slidebean: https://www.g2i.co/slidebean -- Recommended videos: https://youtu.be/unszOmSP-h4?si=zWuKU2xrzKGwugCG https://youtu.be/WVEgKFQeG4E?si=ilOK3YMlZd3b7Nop -- 0:00 Intro 1:05 Debt 9:10 Tech Optimism 11:30 Inequality -- Follow us LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/company/slidebean Instagram: http://instagram.com/slidebean Caya X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/cayahere LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caya/ -- 📚 Sources & References CIA World Factbook — GDP Growth Rate by Country (2009) https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/real-gdp-growth-rate/ Britannica — Countries Affected by the Great Depression https://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Depression/Worldwide-economic-downturn ThoughtCo — Great Depression Archival Photography https://www.thoughtco.com/great-depression-photos-1779431 Economic History Association — The U.S. Economy in the 1920s https://eh.net/encyclopedia/the-u-s-economy-in-the-1920s/ Macrotrends — Dow Jones Industrial Average Historical Chart https://www.macrotrends.net/1319/dow-jones-100-year-historical-chart EHES — Household Debt and Economic Recovery https://ehes.org/EHES_2017.pdf IMF — Global Household Debt Datamapper https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/HH_L_GDP@GDD/USA Pew Research — U.S. National Debt & Foreign Holders https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/10/02/a-look-at-the-us-federal-debt-by-the-numbers/ MarketWatch — Nvidia and the Radio Bubble https://www.marketwatch.com/story/nvidia-stock-bubble-is-it-like-the-radio-bubble-of-the-1920s-11688202378 JSTOR — Integrating Radio into the Home, 1923–1929 https://www.jstor.org/stable/1511620 Finaeon — RCA and the Roaring Twenties https://finaeon.com/rca-radio-corporation-of-america-history/ TIME Magazine Archive — Aeronautics Boom https://time.com/vault/ Reddit — U.S. Consumer Loan Delinquency Rates https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/15z2u1a/us_consumer_loan_delinquency_rates/ University of Houston — Income Inequality in 1928 https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3436 Gallup — American Stock Ownership https://news.gallup.com/poll/266807/percentage-americans-own-stock.aspx Lumen Learning — Stock Market Participation (1929) https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wm-open-macroeconomics/chapter/the-stock-market/ Reuters — Big Tech CAPEX & Data Center Expansion https://www.reuters.com/technology/ai-may-be-biggest-tech-investment-cycle-ever-2024-07-03/ Wikipedia — Countries by External Debt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_external_debt Federal Reserve History — Glass-Steagall Act https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/glass-steagall-act SEC — Market Oversight Overview https://www.sec.gov/about/what-we-do Congress.gov — Monetary Policy Tools (CRS Report) https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11815 #EconomicBubble #StockMarketHistory…