{"id":520,"date":"2026-06-15T11:06:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T11:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityrelocationnews.com\/?p=520"},"modified":"2026-06-15T11:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T11:06:18","slug":"lessons-from-the-original-tech-bubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityrelocationnews.com\/?p=520","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from the Original Tech Bubble"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You\u2019re reading The Financial Page<\/strong>, John Cassidy\u2019s weekly column on economics and politics.<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The boom-and-bust cycle has always been a feature of capitalism, and\u2014capturing as it does the human traits of creativity, hope, greed, FOMO<\/em>, anxiety, and panic\u2014it always will be. Creativity gives rise to technological progress and transformative inventions, which provide a new driving force for the economy and a focal point for investors. Today, we are living through another speculative boom. This time the transformative invention is, of course, A.I., and last week\u2019s SpaceX I.P.O. demonstrated its magnetic appeal, or perhaps the power of FOMO<\/em>. While Elon Musk\u2019s creation is an impressive rocket-and-satellite company, the stunning $1.78-trillion valuation of the I.P.O. was largely based on its ambitions to build A.I. data centers in space, which remain largely untested.<\/p>\n

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In all likelihood, the SpaceX stock offering will now be followed by ones from Anthropic, OpenAI, and other A.I. companies. Because the sums of money at stake are so enormous, and the rises in the stock prices of other corporations involved in the A.I. boom, such as the chipmakers Nvidia, Micron, and Arm, have been so vertiginous, people are understandably eager to look for any lessons that might be drawn from the bursting of the internet bubble, in 2000-01, and also the Great Crash of 1929 and the Great Financial Crisis of 2008-09. But in a timely and engaging new book, \u201c1873: The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World,\u201d the economist Liaquat Ahamed makes the case for also looking back to the nineteenth century, when railroads were the disruptive technology. \u201cThough often forgotten today, it is a tale that offers unsettling parallels to our current economic woes,\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n

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Having become the world\u2019s first trillionaire, at least on paper, thanks to the SpaceX I.P.O., Musk might well quibble with the word \u201cwoes,\u201d but Ahamed\u2019s historical comparison stands. The third quarter of the nineteenth century was a period in which global capitalism made great strides, eliciting a wave of optimism and risk-taking. The large-scale construction of rail networks, which had begun in Britain in the eighteen-thirties, spread to the U.S., continental Europe, and beyond, attracting entrepreneurs of varying levels of foresight and probity, as well as many retail investors who purchased the stocks and bonds that the railroads relied on, along with generous government grants, to finance their expansion.<\/p>\n

In the U.S., Jay Cooke, a Philadelphia financier who had amassed a great fortune by promoting Union bonds during the Civil War, subsequently turned his attention to hawking railway bonds, particularly those issued by the Northern Pacific Railway, which was trying to build a second transcontinental line. (The first one, which the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads built, was completed in 1867.) By the early eighteen-seventies, demand for railroad securities had turned into a \u201csort of mania,\u201d The Nation<\/em> observed, and Cooke\u2019s riches appeared to know no bounds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Meanwhile, in London, Albert Grant, an indefatigable stock promoter who served as the model for the crooked financier Augustus Melmotte in Anthony Trollope\u2019s \u201cThe Way We Live Now,\u201d was taking advantage of the benign investment climate to issue shares in far-flung ventures of uncertain provenance, including the Lima Railways and the Lisbon Steam Tramways Company. In Germany, Bethel Henry Strousberg, whom Ahamed describes as \u201ca mysterious Prussian railroad magnate,\u201d built a business that employed a hundred and fifty thousand people and controlled more than fifteen hundred miles of track across Prussia, Hungary, and western Russia. In three years, some four hundred and fifty startups, many of them infrastructure-related, issued stock in Berlin, and the prices of many larger, more established companies doubled. Bank stocks were a particular favorite. Even members of the landed aristocracy, who had traditionally scorned the grubby world of finance, couldn\u2019t resist the frenzy. \u201cMinisters, generals, princes, and counts gamble in stocks in competition with the most cunning stock-exchange wolves,\u201d Friedrich Engels, who was an interested observer, remarked.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s customary to describe this sort of speculation as a bubble, but it\u2019s important to distinguish between unproductive bubbles, in which the objects of speculation have little or no intrinsic worth, and productive bubbles, which inflate around objects that ultimately create a great deal of lasting economic value. When the trade in exotically colored tulips collapsed in seventeenth-century Amsterdam, or when the meme-stock phenomenon went bust in 2021, nothing valuable had been created. In contrast, the railway boom and the internet stock bubble bequeathed to the economy some vital infrastructure, such as tracks, rolling stock, and fibre-optic cables.<\/p>\n

Much has been made of the sums that A.I. labs and cloud companies such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, which are known as hyperscalers, are spending on data centers and other A.I. infrastructure. Indeed, they are vast. According to the research firm I.D.C., worldwide outlays on servers, storage, and networking alone will be close to half a trillion dollars this year. One analysis estimates that A.I spending by the hyperscalers alone could total two per cent of U.S. G.D.P. But relative to the size of the economy the sums raised and expended on building out the railroads were even bigger. \u201cWithin three years, nearly one and a half billion dollars poured into the railroad bond market, an unprecedented commitment of capital that at its peak amounted to an extraordinary 5 percent of GNP,\u201d Ahamed writes. \u201cRailroad companies multiplied accordingly\u2014by the close of 1872, more than three hundred had their securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange.\u201d<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen just how many A.I. startups beyond Anthropic and OpenAI go on to issue stock. But another parallel with the railroad era is already in place: the frenzy for stocks connected to A.I. has gone global. Take South Korea, home to chipmakers such as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. During the past twelve months, the Kospi stock index has virtually tripled, with many investors taking out margin loans to play the market or expand their positions. Last week, it emerged that this leveraged buying has proceeded so far that Korean brokerage firms have reached the regulatory limits on how much credit they can extend to their customers.<\/p>\n

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Leverage is a perennial feature of bubbles; so are warnings that they cannot last. In August, 1872, a piece in The Nation<\/em> noted that out of three hundred and fifty railroad companies that filed accessible financial accounts, fewer than a hundred paid a dividend. Walter Bagehot, the editor of The Economist,<\/em> warned his friends to avoid speculative investments like the ones being promoted by Grant and others. From Frankfurt, Mayer Carl von Rothschild, the head of the German arm of Europe\u2019s largest financial house, wrote to his English partners, \u201cThe wild speculation in all the new bank shares continues to be the chief topic of conversation.\u201d He went on to decry \u201call these new rubbishing schemes which absorb a good deal of money.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Given the tendency of bubbles to last for longer than any detached observer might expect, it is the fate of Cassandras to be largely ignored\u2014until it is too late. When the bust of 1873 did come, it began in Vienna, which was then the capital of the sprawling Austro-Hungarian Empire. During the previous few years, the cosmopolitan city had experienced a rush of speculation in real estate and stocks, much of it financed by credit. The boom created a nouveau riche who were referred to as the Ringstrasse Barons because of the palatial homes they built on the famous boulevard. On May 9, 1873\u2014Black Friday\u2014stocks collapsed, and fights broke out on the floor of the exchange, which was forced to close. It reopened a week later, but by then the power of leverage was working in reverse. Many speculators were insolvent, and the banks that had lent to them were in similarly dire shape. One prominent banker threw himself to his death from a high floor.<\/p>\n

The shockwaves from Vienna quickly spread to other European financial centers, including London. For a time, the U.S. seemed immune. Over the summer, however, it became clear that the mighty Jay Cooke had overextended himself by investing large amounts of his own money in the Northern Pacific, whose transcontinental-line project had encountered costly delays. On September 18th, the New York branch of Jay Cooke & Company abruptly shuttered its doors after other banks refused to extend it any more credit. News of this development created panicked selling on the New York Stock Exchange, which was forced to close. By the time it reopened, ten days later, stock prices had gapped sharply lower, and a number of banks faced panicked depositors who desperately sought to withdraw their money.<\/p>\n

In those days, there was no Federal Reserve standing ready to provide liquidity to stricken banks, as it did in 2008. To prevent a wholesale collapse of the financial system, the New York Clearing House, a privately run bankers\u2019 association, organized a rescue operation in which its members agreed to pool their cash reserves and provide collateralized short-term loans to troubled banks. The tactic saved the banking industry, but the great railway boom was over, and there was no reprieve for the gullible souls who had been drawn into it. \u201cWithin five years, more than half of the $2.2 billion in railway bonds listed on the New York Stock Exchange would default, leaving investors with losses of almost $600 million,\u201d Ahamed writes.<\/p>\n

The upside of the bust was that about thirty-five thousand miles of track had been laid, doubling the size of the U.S. railway network. This reduced transportation costs, opened up new markets, and boosted over-all economic growth. Last year, Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, argued that the A.I. boom was the latest productive bubble, or, as he termed it, \u201cindustrial bubble.\u201d During episodes of this nature, he said, people get very excited, and every idea, good or bad, gets funded: only after the dust settles can the real winners and losers be discerned. \u201cThat is what is going to happen here, too,\u201d Bezos said. \u201cThis is real, the benefits to society from A.I. are going to be gigantic.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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To be sure, Bezos isn\u2019t a disinterested observer\u2014and objections have been lodged to his argument. One is that, whereas railway lines and rolling stock can last for decades, A.I. chips and other pieces of A.I. hardware quickly wear out or are rendered obsolete, so they don\u2019t necessarily have much lasting value. Some economists believe A.I. could also displace many workers as the benefits that Bezos mentioned accrue primarily to tech barons like him. Like Musk, Jensen Huang, Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, Bezos will not be able to disassociate himself from the consequences of the A.I. boom\u2014or the A.I. bust, if one does come.<\/p>\n

In the eighteen-seventies, as now, most people who bought stocks and bonds were well off. These people bore the initial brunt of the market crash. But the fallout soon affected the rest of the population. Industrial production fell and joblessness jumped. A collapse in the price of commodities, including foodstuffs, hit many farmers. \u201cAs falling prices strained the social fabric, the buoyant optimism of boom years gave way to a pervasive mood of pessimism,\u201d Ahamed writes. Jay Cooke, who had once been lionized for his role in financing the Union victory, was attacked in the press and accused of cheating ordinary Americans out of their savings. Claiming to have been ruined, he sold a fifty-three-room mansion that he had built just north of Philadelphia and moved in with his daughter. Rumors persisted that he had salted away some of his vast wealth. Ahamed provides the kicker: \u201cThese rumors only seemed to be confirmed when, in the early 1880s, claiming to have made a quick $2 million from a Utah gold mine, he bought back his mansion and moved into his old office on South Third Street.\u201d \u2666<\/p>\n

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