Great Depressions – history rhyming

Is history about to repeat itself with another Great Depression is the question posed by an illuminating book about the 1873 crash.  A Times review comments: “The most striking thing about 1873 is that it feels uncannily like 2026. The railway mania has returned as artificial intelligence. Elsewhere, too, the scenery looks familiar: populist revolts against financial elites; mounting suspicion that globalisation has been kinder to some than to others; debtor nations discovering the li