Listener Appreciation Week: The Wreck That Crashed the Stock Market
The SS Central America was lost with millions of dollars of gold.
Listener Appreciation Week Day 5
When the SS Central America sank off the coast of South Carolina in 1857, it went down with millions of dollars worth of gold from California. The loos of the badly needed gold caused a run on the banks, and a financial crisis called the Panic of 1857.
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