By UPI  11/24/07 -- -, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- A financial crisis will likely send the U.S. dollar into a free fall of as much as 90 percent...
  The Panic of 2008 will lead to a lower U.S. standard of living, he said."....
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 Financial Depression of 1873
 Townsend builds the smelter 1887
 
 1929: Great Depression
 1929-1933 "At the height of the Great Depression, Smeltertown spanned about 25 acres and the population had grown to about 5,000 residents." 
 
 1930's : "[Asarco's] company's recovery was aided by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's silver-purchase plan and his devaluation of the dollar, which caused the prices of precious metals to rise."
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