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MoAF Announces FREE Saturday Admission

MoAF Announces FREE Saturday Admission


May 10, 2013 | Announcements

Admission to the Museum will be FREE for all visitors on Saturdays through 2013, courtesy of Southport Lane.

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  • May 21, 2013
    Museum of American Finance to Participate in Blue Star Museums
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  • May 2, 2013
    A Look at the Origin of Our National Debt
    MoAF in the News

    The US government is $16,828,845,497,183.90 in debt (but who's counting?). How did we get here? Talk about the origins of our debt, and you'll start a conversation about policy in the last few years, maybe the last decade. But, as MoAF President David Cowen explains to The Motley Fool's Morgan Housel, the real origins go back much farther than that.

  • April 29, 2013
    A Humbled Financial Press: Don't Believe What You See
    MoAF in the News

    There is a common perception that old news is worthless, but old news can often teach you more about the future than current news. MoAF President David Cowen provides a great example of the value of old news.

  • April 27, 2013
    Wall Street: We've Seen It Before, and We'll See It Again
    MoAF in the News

    The Motley Fool's Morgan Housel asks David Cowen, CEO of the Museum of American Finance and a financial historian, what he thinks of Wall Street's boom-bust cycle.

  • April 25, 2013
    Trading Through the 2008 Crash From the Perspective of a Financial Historian
    MoAF in the News

    The Motley Fool's Morgan Housel asks MoAF President/CEO David Cowen what the Crash of 2008 was like from the perspective of a financial historian.

  • April 22, 2013
    Believe It: Hyperinflation in America
    MoAF in the NewsThe Motley Fool's Morgan Housel asks MoAF President David Cowen about hyperinflation and counterfeiting in 18th century America.
  • April 21, 2013
    Wall Street's Worst Day in History
    MoAF in the NewsThe Motley Fool's Morgan Housel interviews MoAF President David Cowen about the low point in American financial history.
  • April 18, 2013
    Museum to Re-Launch “Tracking the Credit Crisis” Exhibit in New Gallery with Updated Content
    Announcements

    On Friday, April 26, the Museum will launch an updated version of "Tracking the Credit Crisis: A Timeline." Presented as a monumental 7 ft. x 56 ft. graphic wall, the exhibit traces the development of the most recent financial crisis from the bursting of the housing bubble through the unprecedented trillions of dollars being guaranteed and injected into the private sector by the US government.

  • April 12, 2013
    NFL Players Participate in Museum Education Program
    Announcements

    On Friday, April 12, current and former NFL players studying for their MBAs spoke about the value of education and financial literacy to 7th and 8th grade students in the Museum's Center for Financial Education.

  • April 1, 2013
    How Traders' Pranks Were Once Routine on U.S. Exchanges
    MoAF in the News

    Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries floor traders at U.S. stock exchanges engaged in elaborate and often bizarre pranks, and not just on April Fool's Day.

  • March 12, 2013
    14 Gadgets That Wall Street Loved Before the Bloomberg Terminal
    MoAF in the News

    A brief, visual history of trading technology, from ticker tape to the present, featuring several images from the Museum's collection.

  • March 6, 2013
    The Long View, the Really Long View, on the Stock Market
    MoAF in the News

    The Dow Jones Industrial Average goes back to May 26, 1896. Richard Sylla goes a lot farther back than that. Sylla, an economist at the Stern School of Business at New York University and chairman of the Museum of American Finance, is one of the nation’s most eminent financial historians. He is a natural source to put the Dow’s latest record in long-term context.

  • February 28, 2013
    Are You an Investor or a Speculator?
    MoAF in the News

    An interesting article on investors vs. speculators by WSJ reporter Jason Zweig, which references a "brilliant essay" published in our magazine.

  • February 27, 2013
    Anti-Capitalist Ideology Animated First "Monopoly" Game
    MoAF in the News

    MoAF's Deputy Director writes about the controversial history of "Monopoly" on Bloomberg's Echoes blog.

  • February 21, 2013
    Hamilton Talk by MoAF Chairman Airs on C-SPAN
    MoAF in the News

    Dr. Richard Sylla's talk on Alexander Hamilton's Economic Legacy, co-presented by the Museum of American Finance and the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society in January, aired on C-SPAN the weekend of February 23-24 and is now available online.

  • January 22, 2013
    The British Bank That Forever Altered the US Economy
    MoAF in the News

    MoAF's Deputy Director writes about the history of Barings Bank on Bloomberg's Echoes blog.

  • January 20, 2013
    MoAF Gala Featured in NYT Sunday Style
    MoAF in the News

    Bill Cunningham highlights the Museum in his "The Arts, Actually" column.

  • January 9, 2013
    Staley, Niederauer, Bowles, Whitehead: Scene Last Night
    MoAF in the News

    Change in the financial industry is a constant theme at the museum, whose exhibitions include a 1792 treasury bond issued to George Washington as well as information on hedge funds and electronic trading. The 25-year-old institution has a $3.6 million budget and last year had 43,000 visitors. The newest temporary exhibition lets visitors weigh in on five investments made by Barings Bank, including the Louisiana Purchase.


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MoAF Announces FREE Saturday Admission
05/10/13

Admission to the Museum will be FREE for all visitors on Saturdays through 2013, courtesy of Southport Lane.