>>44423047Fun fact: Railway Mania in 1840s Britain and its subsequent bubble bursting led to the destruction of roughly $5T in today's money and later railway booms in the 1860s were making up an estimated 20% of Britain's GDP at the time, and no investment in history or since has ever come anywhere close to matching it. What's more is that almost all of it was funded by private citizens, not any institutions or government.
