![In the Roaring Twenties, the whole world had the feeling that the economy was only on the up…](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/zwanziger-titelbild-300x225.jpg)
The Roaring Twenties
Even today, people rhapsodise about the ‘Golden’ Twenties. But how glittering were those years, really? And how strong are the parallels to the current ’20s?
![Soldiers in France during World War I.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/erster-weltkrieg-300x136.jpg)
TV report on the 1929 stock market crash. YouTube
![Is history repeating itself? No, says Mark Twain, but it does keep rhyming.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/twain-300x207.jpg)
Even today, people rhapsodise about the ‘Golden’ Twenties. But how glittering were those years, really? And how strong are the parallels to the current ’20s?