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  2. Market Revolution - Wikipedia

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    The Market Revolution in the 19th century United States is a historical model that describes how the United States became a modern market-based economy. During the mid 19th century, technological innovation allowed for increased output, demographic expansion and access to global factor markets for labor, goods and capital.

  3. Panic of 1819 - Wikipedia

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    The general effect was a decline in prices throughout the Western world, due to a scarcity of gold and silver specie. [6] Britain had advanced its industrial capacity to fully meet its wartime demands, but post-war continental Europe was temporarily too devastated to absorb Britain's surplus manufactured goods.

  4. Economic history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Exports and related services accounted for about one-sixth of income in the decade before revolution. Just before the revolution, tobacco was about a quarter of the value of exports. Also at the time of the revolution the colonies produced about 15% of world iron, although the value of exported iron was small compared to grains and tobacco. [7]

  5. Panic of 1837 - Wikipedia

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    The effect of both policies was to transfer specie away from the nation's main commercial centers on the East Coast. With inadequate monetary reserves in their vaults, major banks and financial institutions on the East Coast had to scale back their loans, which was a major cause of the panic, besides the real estate crash. [14]

  6. Commercial revolution - Wikipedia

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    The economic effects of a labor shortage actually caused wages to rise, while agricultural yields were once again able to support a diminished population. By the beginning of the 15th century, the economic expansion associated with the commercial revolution in earlier centuries returned in full force, aided by improvements in navigation and ...

  7. Industrial Revolution - Wikipedia

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    The causes of the Industrial Revolution were complicated and remain a topic for debate. Geographic factors include Britain's vast mineral resources. In addition to metal ores, Britain had the highest quality coal reserves known at the time, as well as abundant water power, highly productive agriculture, and numerous seaports and navigable ...

  8. Revolution or market bubble? Investors weigh the AI boom

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  9. History of tariffs in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Thus in a trade war, since exports and imports will decrease equally, for the whole world, the negative effect of a decrease in exports will be compensated by the expansionary effect of a decrease in imports. A trade war therefore does not cause a recession. Furthermore, he notes that the Smoot–Hawley tariff did not cause the Great Depression.