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Antoin Murphy on "The World's First Stock Market Boom and Collapse: John Law and the Mississippi System" (05/08/12)
Award-winning author and 18th century financial bubble specialist Antoin Murphy will speak at this Lunch and Learn Series event.

What Was the Very First Hedge Fund? Ask Warren Buffett (04/24/12)
While most historians and industry professionals credit Alfred Winslow Jones with launching the first hedge fund in 1949, some people, including Graham’s protege, Warren Buffett, disagree.

David Greenberg on "The Transition from Open Outcry to Electronic Trading" (04/20/12)
Join us for a lunchtime talk with commodities trader David Greenberg on the effects technology have had on the energy market.

Niall Ferguson on Civilization: The West and the Rest (04/20/12)
As America approaches the 2012 presidential election in the midst of a geopolitical paradigm shift, acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson takes a timely look at the reasons behind West’s economic ascendancy and why the Eastern civilizations may now be taking the lead.

Financial History, Issue 102 (03/30/12)
How Ralph Kramden brought down Casey Jones, in which a cartoon rabbit and a very real civil-rights heroine also appear. Exploring the National City Lines conspiracy.