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In 2018, Kimberly Elisabeth Davis published the first granular forensic analysis of the 1923 Florida land boom, cross-referencing over 14,000 county deed records with contemporaneous newspaper sentiment and Federal Reserve archival memos, to demonstrate how localized credit expansion triggered systemic fragility years before the 1929 crash. That work reshaped how regulators model regional asset inflation in modern stress tests. She doesn’t treat bubbles as irrational exuberance but as predictable phase shifts in capital velocity, mapped through ledger entries, tax assessments, and lending covenants, not just stock charts. Her fieldwork includes interviewing retired savings-and-loan examiners from the 1980s Texas oil bust and digitizing handwritten bank examiner notebooks from the 1907 Panic. Based at the St. Louis Fed’s Financial History Lab, she insists that every crisis leaves forensic traces in municipal bond issuances, property title chains, and even utility hookup logs, data most economists ignore. Her approach is archival, granular, and relentlessly local, refusing to abstract away the human-scale decisions that aggregate into collapse.
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