How summers and crises go together was obvious in the event that triggered the first big collapse of the gold standard, the outbreak of WWI in 1914. Indeed, this was the Urkrise – the event that made the twentieth century so terrible.
但危机的技术面包含着多得多的戏剧性。夏天和危机一起发生，这一现象在触发了金本位第一次崩溃、1914年一战爆发的事件中一览无余。事实上，这就是Urkrise——让20世纪变得面目狰狞的事件。