Financial History, Issue 88
Spring 2007
Attention Shoppers: 1906 Sears IPO Heralds the Triumph of the Consumer Economy
By Gregory DL Morris
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The Man Who Exposed Wall Street: Ferdinand Pecora Takes the First Step Toward Restoring Investors' Confidence in America's Capital Markets After the Crash of 1929, by John Rotondi
The Liberty Loan Bond: 2007 Marks the 90th Anniversary of the First War Bond of the 20th Century, by Lawrence D. Schuffman
Creative Financing of a Planned Community: Frederick Law Olmstead and the Riverside Improvement Company, by Joan C. Junkus
Where's the Beef...From? And How Did It Get Here?: The Morrill Act, the Real McCoy, and How Agriculture Became Big Business, by Gregory DL Morris
The Hedge Fund Revolution: The Next Step in the Evolution of Modern Finance, by Scott B. MacDonald
Educators' Perspective: 1946: The Year Without Margin, by Dan Cooper and Brian Grinder
Book Review: Financial Founding Fathers, by Robert Wright and David J. Cowen
Book Review: The Money Men, by H.W. Brands
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