AOVES SECOND CJOLIDGE ROOM SECOND SOLIDGE “INA IRST OLIDG: re Us GOV... FiNaNCING CHART 3.—Booms, recoveries and panics are here repre- sented by departures from the Karsten “line of funda- mentals” which is used to predict the course of stock prices. The Hoover boom and collapse represent the most serious departures from the line since 1913.