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July 18, 2010
Of Scoundrels and Scandals
The New York Times

The financial misdeeds of Enron executives and Bernard L. Madoff seem to have a modern-day cast to them, but when you strip them to their essentials, they are really nothing new. An exhibition at the Museum of American Finance highlights major financial scandals throughout the nation’s history.
June 15, 2010
Economists Examine Likelihood of Double Dip Recession
By Paul Solman, PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

On the occasion of their new books, Roubini's Crisis Economics and a revised edition of Taleb's Black Swan, we brought our doubty doomsters together recently at New York's Museum of American Finance to look back and ahead.
June 13, 2010
Museum presents exhibit "Scandal! Financial Crime, Chicanery and Corruption That Rocked America"
By Ed Wetschler, The Dallas Morning News

Although the Museum of American Finance is set in a Wall Street landmark, the former Bank of New York building, it doesn't balk at indicting the financial world's bad apples.
June 10, 2010
Secrets of Alexander Hamilton's Powder Horn Revealed
By Justin Rohrlich, Minyanville.com

After 20 years of research and investigation, Dr. Warren Richman yesterday made his interpretations of Hamilton’s inscriptions public for the first time at the Museum of American Finance.
April 30, 2010
Wall Street Scandals on Display
By Bobbi Rebell, Reuters TV

A new exhibit at the Museum of American Finance examines the scandals of Wall Street, past and present. Reuters TV's Bobbi Rebell reports.
April 30, 2010
Museum Exhibit on Financial Scandal May Need an Update
By Mary Pilon, The Wall Street Journal

Coming at the heels of the SEC’s fraud probe into Goldman Sachs, the Scandal! exhibit at the Museum of American Finance, which opened Thursday, seems eerily well-timed.
April 30, 2010
Exhibit Director Reviews "Enron" on Broadway
BBC Radio

Leena Akhtar, the Museum's director of exhibits and archives and the co-curator of the "Scandal!" exhibit, reviews the new Broadway play "Enron" for BBC Radio.