The bank doors closed on a Tuesday, and the cash simply vanished. It's 1933 in the American Midwest, in the heart of the Great Depression, and the deflationary spiral is suffocating the agricultural economy like a tectonic plate in slow motion. Crop prices have plummeted, heavily leveraged farmers can't pay their debts, and local banks—burdened with agricultural collateral that's depreciating at lightning speed—are experiencing catastrophic and …
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The bank doors closed on a Tuesday, and the cash simply vanished. It's 1933 in the American Midwest, in the heart of the Great Depression, and the deflationary spiral is suffocating the agricultural economy like a tectonic plate in slow motion. Crop prices have plummeted, heavily leveraged farmers can't pay their debts, and local banks—burdened with agricultural collateral that's depreciating at lightning speed—are experiencing catastrophic and …