Not only is it an arithmetically neat 100 years in the past, but it also looked like an attractive parallel. The crisis of 1907 was both immediately devastating, provoking a massive but short economic downturn, and, as it turned out, easily resolved.
当前信用危机之始，许多喜欢以史为鉴的人将1907年拎出来作为关键性的先例。这一年不仅恰好是100年前，而且看似与现在的情况有很大的可比性。1907年的危机虽然迅速造成了破坏性的影响，引起了规模极大但时间不长的经济衰退，但是最后得以轻松化解。