Two groups of crisis theories, 748. — Failures the chief phenomena in the crisis, 749. — Promotion activity the cause of prosperity, 750. — Relation between promotion and failures, 752. — Newly-promoted concerns fail, 752. — Old concerns fail because of competition of new, 755. — All kinds fail because of inability to cope with dynamic conditions, 756. — The part of credit in the cycle, 761. — Exhaustion of loanable funds, 761. — Falling reserve ratios or falling reserves, 762. — Gold movements before crises, 763. — Break down of credit not the main cause of crises, 764. — Crisis failures include insolvent as well as solvent concerns, 765. — Promotion the cause of crises, 766.

The sequence of events leading up to a crisis, 95. — Interest as a factor in cost of production, 96. — A comparison of interest rates and commodity prices, 97. — Two-fold demand for loans causes rapid rise of interest, 98. — Increase in profits due to lagging behind of cost of production, 101. — Disappearance of profits due to increased cost of production, 102. — No automatic check to prosperity in rise of virtual interest rates, 104.