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Help relive the Great Crash of 1929 on the 24th annual guided walking tour of Lower Manhattan. This unique walking tour, which is the only regularly scheduled event that commemorates the Great Crash of 1929, the Panic of 1907 and the 1987 stock market collapse, delves into the political, financial, real estate and architectural history of Wall Street and New York City.
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Please join us for a Lunch and Learn event with Abraham Briloff, the foremost authoritative commentator on accountancy matters in the US.
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The Museum's 90-minute walking tour of the Financial District.
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Presented in conjunction with the Skyscraper Museum, this Kaufman Series event will explore the rich architectural history of Wall Street.
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The world’s most expensive incarnation of the Monopoly board game is headed to Wall Street. An 18-karat gold version of the famous Parker Brothers board game will be on display beginning Friday at the Museum of American Finance.
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On October 15, the Museum will unveil the display of an 18-karat solid gold Monopoly set covered with hundreds of precious gemstones, on loan from the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History.
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How the colonial real estate crisis of the 1760s turned Sheriff John Morton into a rebel.
The Museum's 90-minute walking tour of the Financial District.
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Howard Hopkins, Director of Energy Products at CME Group, and Paul Hughes, Senior Analyst within Business Development for CME Group, will discuss the past, present and future of energy trading.
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The Museum's 90-minute walking tour of the Financial District.
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A history of Ponzi schemes, from Charles Ponzi to Bernie Madoff.
Alexander Hamilton, first Secretary of the US Treasury, is also founder of the US Coast Guard. Join us for this and other fascinating facts about the history and impact of the maritime and commercial shipping industry on the rise of Wall Street.
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The Museum's 90-minute walking tour of the Financial District, focusing on Wall Street's architecture.
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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.
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"Scandal! Financial Crime, Chicanery and Corruption that Rocked America” is a richly informative exhibit about the history of financial scandals in America. The exhibit covers several of the major scandals in American finance, from William Duer’s role in the Crash of 1792 through Lehman’s colossal downfall.
The Museum's 90-minute walking tour of the Financial District, focusing on the history of financial scandals.
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The Museum's 90-minute walking tour of the Financial District, focusing on the history of financial scandals.
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The Museum's 90-minute walking tour of the Financial District.
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On Thursday, April 29, the Museum will open “Scandal!: Financial Crime, Chicanery and Corruption that Rocked America,” a richly informative exhibit about the history of financial scandals in America.
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The Museum's 90-minute walking tour of the Financial District.
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The Museum's 90-minute walking tour of the Financial District, with an emphasis on the Revolutionary period. Tour participants will be admitted free of charge to the Lunch and Learn Series event at 12:30 pm.
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This 90-minute walking tour of the Financial District focuses on Alexander Hamilton's contributions to financial history.
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Thirteen Forum's coverage of the Museum's expert panel on the 80th anniversary of the Crash of 1929.
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The Museum's 90-minute holiday-themed walking tour of Wall Street.
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The Museum's 90-minute holiday-themed walking tour of Wall Street.
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Join us for a sneak peek screening of "Floored," a feature-length documentary about the up and down lives of traders. Screening will be followed by Q&A with Director James Allen Smith and reception.
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Discover the female power brokers who have shaped the history of Wall Street with this 90-minute tour of the Financial District.
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The Museum's 90-minute walking tour of the Financial District.
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Best-selling author Charles Geisst speaks at the 2009 Kaufman Series on his new book, Collateral Damaged: The Marketing of Consumer Debt to America.
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Should the U.S. government, or any government for that matter, use public money to stabilize a disintegrating financial system? Theory backed by historical experience suggests that it should, but only if it does so in just the right way.
Eighty years ago, the U.S. stock market tumbled dramatically and the depression followed. CNN's Richard Roth looks back.
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On Thursday, October 29, the Museum will continue its 2009 Kaufman Series with “Did Economists Get It Wrong?” – an expert panel on the different explanations of the current crisis on the 80th anniversary of the Crash of 1929.
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Walk through history from the Dutch to modern day Wall Street on this 90-minute walking tour of the Financial District.
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Krawcheck, the former Citigroup star who joined BofA in August to head its Global Wealth and Investment Management unit, told a story last evening in an on-stage conversation with Fortune magazine's Carol Loomis at the Museum of American Finance.
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Discover the female power brokers who have shaped the history of Wall Street with this 90-minute tour of the Financial District.
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Walk through history from the Dutch to modern day Wall Street on this 90-minute walking tour of the Financial District.
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The Museum of American Finance is showcasing 10 famous Wall Street women.
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Walk through history from the Dutch to modern day Wall Street on this 90-minute walking tour of the Financial District.
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Walk through history from the Dutch to modern day Wall Street on this 90-minute walking tour of the Financial District.
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A representative from the CME Group will present an interactive demonstration of open out cry trading.
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Museum of American Finance exhibit takes a look at the female wheeler-dealers who broke into the exclusive boys' club.
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Discover the female power brokers who have shaped the history of Wall Street with this 90-minute tour of the Financial District.
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Walking tour of the Financial District with a focus on Hamilton and his contributions to American finance.
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Discover the female power brokers who have shaped the history of Wall Street with this 90-minute walking tour of the Financial District.
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Former NYMEX President Rosemary McFadden speaks to Fox Business about the Museum's new exhibit.
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Reception to open the Museum's groundbreaking new exhibit, "Women of Wall Street."
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The story of women on Wall Street is the story of women in America. Issues of freedom and financial independence clashed with societal norms in the traditionally male domain of finance. Until recent decades, women had largely been excluded from Wall Street. Despite this, there were women who defied convention and made a name for themselves in finance. These pioneering women battled for both personal and financial self-determination.
The Museum's Saturday walking tour of the Financial District. 90-minute tour meets at the Museum at 1 pm. $15 per person.
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These past two years have not been kind to the women on Wall Street. Nonetheless, women will show up in force next Tuesday for the opening reception for the new “Women on Wall Street” exhibit.
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The Museum's Saturday walking tour of the Financial District. 90-minute tour meets at the Museum at 1 pm. $15 per person.
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The Museum's Saturday walking tour of the Financial District. 90-minute tour meets at the Museum at 1 pm. $15 per person.
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The Museum's Saturday walking tour of the Financial District. 90-minute tour meets at the Museum at 1 pm. $15 per person.>
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On June 9, the Museum will open “Women of Wall Street,” a groundbreaking exhibit showcasing notable women in the world of finance and Wall Street, both historically and in modern times.
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Jean Strouse is the author of Morgan, American Financier and Alice James, A Biography, which won the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy.
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The Museum's Saturday walking tour of the Financial District. 90-minute tour meets at the Museum at 1 pm. $15 per person.
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The Museum's Saturday walking tour of the Financial District. 90-minute tour meets at the Museum at 1 pm. $15 per person.
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The Museum's Saturday walking tour of the Financial District. 90-minute tour meets at the Museum at 1 pm. $15 per person.
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To get a real sense of how much Wall Street culture changed, I went out to the Museum of American Finance, located at 48 Wall Street.
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While we have all heard the phrase "history repeats itself," very few people properly apply long-term history to investing. Worse yet, the default assumption of most investors is to think it's different this time and find themselves buying into financial bubbles or cashing out near a bear market low. Clearly, investors need to spend more time studying investment history. A good place to start is by studying past market corrections and what happened during the years that followed.
Leena Akhtar, the Museum's manager of exhibits and archives, discusses Wall Street's history with Bloomberg television (Germany).
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Tourists have been flocking to Wall Street, mystefied and intrigued. The number of visitors making their way to the museum...was up 44 percent in October.
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Opening reception for “Trading on the Street," an exhibit tracing the history of trading on Wall Street from the signing of the Buttonwood Agreement in 1792 to the increasing computerization of trading today.
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This year America's main television networks have compared the country's economy today to the big slump of the 1930s more than 200 times. But do the parallels really bear examination?
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At the Museum of American Finance on Wall Street, NewsHour economics correspondent Paul Solman sat down with Eugene White and author Amity Shlaes for a historical look at the Great Depression.
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On Thursday, November 20, the Museum will open “Trading on the Street,” an exhibit tracing the history of trading on Wall Street from the signing of the Buttonwood Agreement in 1792 to the increasing computerization of trading today.
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Robert Siegel, host of NPR's "All Things Considered," takes a tour of Wall Street with Richard Warshauer and James Kaplan, guides of the Museum's annual "Great Crash Walking Tour."
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Wall Street has become part of the daily discussion in recent weeks, more than ever before. But what exactly happens on the real Wall Street these days? BBC New York correspondent Matt Wells interviews Museum President/CEO Lee Kjelleren.
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New York, NY – On Wednesday, October 15, the Museum of American Finance will continue its 2008 Henry Kaufman Financial History and Practices Lecture/Symposia Series with a talk by James Grant, a guest editor of the 75th anniversary edition of Security Analysis.
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An update on Wall Street today, featuring an interview with the Museum's Communications Director, Kristin Aguilera.
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The Museum commemorated the centennial anniversary of the Panic of 1907 with a symposium featuring prominent authors and historians followed by a keynote address by Federal Reserve Governor Frederic Mishkin.
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To understand fully the Crash and Panic of 1907, one must consider its context: it was a time somewhat like the present. A Republican moralist was in the White House. War was fresh in mind. Immigration was fueling dramatic changes in society. New technologies were changing people's everyday lives. Business consolidators and their Wall Street advisers were creating large, new combinations through mergers and acquisitions, while the government was investigating and prosecuting prominent executives -- led by an aggressive young prosecutor from New York. The public's attitude toward business leaders, fueled by a muckraking press, was largely negative. The government itself was becoming increasingly interventionist in society and, in some ways, more intrusive in individual life. Much of this was stimulated by a postwar economic expansion that, with brief interruptons, had lasted about 50 years, although in recent months a major natural disaster had disturbed the equilibrium of the nation's fragile financial system. As Mark Twain supposedly said, "History may not repeat itself, but it occasionally rhymes."
Since its inception in 1886, Sears has issued many glossy publications filled with numbers and descriptions. Most of those have been catalogues, with dazzling copy written by Richard Sears himself. But exactly 100 years ago the firm issued a different publication filled with numbers and descriptions: its first annual report.
In 2004, Americans celebrate, if that is the right word, the 75th anniversary of the Great Stock Market Crash of 1929. There had been market crashes before 1929. And there were crashes after 1929. But 1929 is still considered "The Big One." How did the Great Crash develop in 1929? What did we think of it as its 25th and 50th anniversaries in 1954 and 1979? And how might we view it now, at its 75th? Exploring these questions, I conclude that we need to forget some of what "everyone knows" about the Crash of '29.
Back when the United States was primarily a primarily an agrarian society, the banker, the doctor, the preacher, the lawyer and, in a way, the bar owner, were the enduring pillars of each town. It was the town banker, however, who enabled the farm-centric communities to survive and thrive.
In Martin Fridson's book, "It Was a Very Good Year: Extraordinary Moments in Stock Market History," 1954 ranks as the second best year of the 20th century for market returns as measured by the Standard & Poor's 500 Index (52.62 percent). It was also the year that the Dow finally regained its pre-1929 high of 381.37 and soared past the 400 mark for the first time. Fridson also notes the arrival of Muriel Siebert on Wall Street in 1954. Siebert, who established a successful career in a male-dominated industry, is probably best known as the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Siebert was not the typical career woman of the 1950s, but her struggle to overcome prejudice and discrimination on Wall Street caused us to wonder: What does it take for a woman to achieve prominence and respect on Wall Street?
2004 marked the 20th anniversary of the re-emergence of securities trading in the People's Republic of China. In 1984, the government approved the issuance of the first publicly issued stock since 1949. The issuing company was the state-owned Beijing Tian-Quio Department Store, which issued a three-year fixed interest rate stock that resembled a three-year bond in Western financial markets. Beginning in 1990, China also permitted the establishment of 24 regional stock exchanges to trade the slowly expanding number of new shares. In late 1990, China formally re-established two fully functioning national stock exchanges, one in Shanghai and one in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen. All Chinese share trading was gradually moved to these two exchanges, beginning in late 1990. After 12 years of rapid growth, China again became a major stock market in the Far East, third in size after Japan and Hong Kong.
A classroom guide to the "Banking in America" exhibit, including learning objectives, vocabulary, discussion questions and a classroom activity.
A classroom guide to the "Entrepreneurs" exhibit, including learning objectives, vocabulary, discussion questions and a classroom activity.
How a Group of Business Students Sold Enron
a Year Before the Collapse
It is Wall Street lore that no one saw the collapse of Enron coming. Chairman Kenneth Lay, CFO Andrew Fastow, COO Jeffrey Skilling and their band of brigands had done such a good job of fooling accountants, auditors, investors and regulators that the implosion was a shock to all. Like much received wisdom on Wall Street, this is not entirely true.
This classroom lesson, based on the Museum’s “Money: A History” exhibit, will help students understand the evolution of money in America including how the change from many different bank-issued notes to one federal currency helped unify the country. Students will also learn about how the Bureau of Engraving and Printing protects against counterfeiting.
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This classroom lesson, based on the Museum’s “Banking in America” exhibit, will help students understand why banks today are safe places to deposit money, how banks earn profits, why banks are important to the overall US economy and what role the Federal Reserve plays in our banking system.
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A classroom guide to "The Financial Markets" exhibit, including learning objectives, vocabulary, discussion questions and a classroom activity.
A classroom guide to the "Money: A History" exhibit, including learning objectives, vocabulary, discussion questions and a classroom activity.