huh, I really want a book on this too now. @BretDevereaux know anyone who's written on this?
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...a large, interest-free, 3-year loan to bankers when loans at the time were rarely extended for more than a few months. This was unprecedented, and was unlikely to be a response to a minor matter.
It was not unprecedented. Tiberius' two immediate predecessors, Julius Caesar and Octavian had made similarly sized donations to either the people of Rome, the public treasury, or both.
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Octavian (Augustus) is at pains to point out that he made similarly massive donations to the public (RG 15) and that he bailed out the public treasury no less than four times, at a number significantly greater than what Tiberius spent (RG 17)
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I suppose at some point it depends here on what we understand as a major crisis - evidently significant enough to drag in the emperor...but mostly because its consequences were confined to the landholding elite that dominated Roman politics.
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Again I have to disagree. I checked the banking section of my copy of "Roman Market Economy", and Peter Temin says "The only attested case of lending by the Roman state is an exception that proves the rule: in the crisis of 33 CE, Tiberius placed HS100 million from...
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...the aerarium (state treasury) with banks in Rome to provide interest-free three-year loans to heavily indebted senators in order to avert a credit crisis"
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