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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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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.
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.
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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.
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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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Marc Chandler, Global Head of Currency Strategy for Brown Brothers Harriman and author of Making Sense of the Dollar: Exposing Dangerous Myths About Trade and Foreign Exchange, will speak at the first event in the Museum's 2010 Henry Kaufman Series.
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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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"Wall Street is our Main Street," Paterson declared yesterday to applause as he discussed the state's budget crisis at the Museum of American Finance.
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Gov. David A. Paterson went to [the Museum of American Finance] on Wall Street on Wednesday, not to pillory financiers, but to praise them.
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Speaking at the Museum of American Finance, Governor Paterson said New York is on the brink of fiscal disaster, calling the state "ground zero for the recession."
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Speaking at the Museum of American Finance on Wall Street, Governor Paterson offered a sympathetic voice to the much-maligned financial sector.
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Gov. David Paterson discusses New York's troubled economy with CNBC's Scott Cohn at the Museum of American Finance.
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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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Lawrence McDonald, a leading financial lecturer, will speak on his bestselling book, A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers.
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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.
What you really need is a bit of perspective, and that is to be found at the Museum of American Finance.
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Eighty years ago, the U.S. stock market tumbled dramatically and the depression followed. CNN's Richard Roth looks back.
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Best-selling author will discuss credit card addiction and how a nation of savers became a nation of consumers.
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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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A recently launched website from New York's Museum of American Finance, www.recessipedia.org, seeks to foster understanding of the causes of the crisis, with first-person accounts by ordinary people and professionals.
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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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Join us for a conversation with one of the groundbreaking women featured in the Museum’s “Women of Wall Street” exhibit.
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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 of American Finance today launched a new site dubbed Recessipedia, which borrows Wikipedia’s underlying technology and wisdom-of-crowds concept to tackle the relatively narrow topic of the recent recession.
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The Museum today launched Recessipedia, a wiki designed to tap the wisdom of crowds from Wall Street to Main Street to learn the causes of the financial crisis.
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Decades of privatization have shifted the burden of risk from government and institutions to individuals and families. As a result, many Americans now find themselves unable to cope with the financial strains of employment and investment insecurity, as well as the costs of health care and pension financing.
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As instructors prepare their 2009-10 classes, they should take time to check out the Museum of American Finance’s new Recessipedia wiki. The site has several advantages over Wikipedia and other online sites frequented by students.
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In The Road to Financial Reformation, Henry Kaufman provides an insightful account of how we created the current financial crisis and what needs to be done to put our derailed economy back on track.
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It’s been a year since Lehman Brothers went bust. Today we’re at the Museum of American Finance asking – what really went wrong at Lehman?
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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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The Museum of American Finance was faced with an awkward situation recently: some of the corporate sponsors of the museum — dedicated to glories of free markets — had, well, failed.
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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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Learn about the drivers of the global financial crisis, from housing and commodities to credit and currencies.
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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 of American Finance, located appropriately on Wall Street, has been pulling in the crowds with its timely interpretation of the market meltdown.
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At the Museum of American Finance, visitors are clamouring for a take on the current economic situation.
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The first event in our monthly "Brown Bag Lunch Series" featuring Doreen Mogavero, president and CEO of Mogavero, Lee & Company., Inc.
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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 of American Finance isn't wasting any time and has already established a credit crisis exhibit.
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The Museum of American Finance, a relatively-young museum found at the heart of New York’s Financial District, opened a new exhibit last week entitled “Tracking the Credit Crisis: A Timeline,” as the first exhibit to spotlight the ongoing global financial event that began some 18 to 24 months ago.
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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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NPR - The Museum of American Finance has a new exhibit called "Tracking the Credit Crisis." It is basically a timeline displaying the major events of the global economic crisis, from the collapse of Lehman Brothers to the decision to save AIG.
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On Wednesday, March 25 at 10:30 am, the Museum will host a press conference to open “Tracking the Credit Crisis: A Timeline,” an exhibit tracing the development of the current financial crisis.
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The Museum of American Finance's new exhibition, "Tracking the Credit Crisis," starts its timeline in February 2007 when Mortgage Lenders Networks USA, the nation's 15th largest subprime lender, filed for bankruptcy, and tracks the fall of other firms to the present day.
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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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"When markets are psychologically damaged like they are right now, I actually think it would go a long way to adding confidence,” [Niederauer] said at the Museum of American Finance in New York.
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NYSE Euronext CEO Duncan Niederauer speaks at the Museum's 2009 Henry Kaufman Lecture/Symposia Series on "Where Do We Go From Here?"
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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 financial crisis that has plunged the United States and much of the developed world into recession is different than previous bouts of turmoil, former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker said on Monday [at the Museum of American Finance].
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On March 25, the Museum will open “Tracking the Credit Crisis” to trace the development of the current financial crisis, the most severe and complex economic and financial challenge in modern experience.
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Private equity investor Wilbur Ross will provide a review of President Obama’s proposed domestic and international economic initiatives, assess them, and compare them with those of the Bush administration.
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On Tuesday, March 3, the Museum of American Finance will continue its 2009 Henry Kaufman Financial History and Practices Lecture/Symposia Series with a talk by NYSE Euronext CEO Duncan Niederauer entitled “Where Do We Go From Here?” The program will be held from 5:30 – 7:00 pm in the Museum’s education center, located at 48 Wall Street.
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On Wednesday, January 21, the Museum of American Finance will inaugurate its 2009 Henry Kaufman Financial History and Practices Lecture/Symposia Series with a talk by private equity investor Wilbur Ross entitled “President Obama’s Economic Programs.”
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The economy is in disarray and the U.S. Treasury will need to raise at least $1.5 trillion in 2009. Our panel of renowned commentators will provide insights, perspective, and prospects.
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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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Panel discussion on the financial crisis from a US and UK perspective.
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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 29, the Museum of American Finance will host a lively panel discussion on how well the media is covering the economic issues of the Presidential campaign. The program will be held from 5:30 – 7:00 pm in the Museum’s education center, located at 48 Wall Street.
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The Museum's Winter 2008 events calendar is now available.
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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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When the U.S. housing bubble fully burst in 2007 and home prices dropped, 1.25 million subprime mortgages foreclosed, up 80% from 2006. Projections of 2.5 million foreclosures for 2008 seem likely. Over $1 trillion in subprime mortgages will likely be revalued at 60-80% of their original value before the home mortgage crisis and subsequent, but related, credit crisis is worked through.
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.
Cutthroat deals, take no prisoners, war rooms; the language of combat is often used to describe the world of business. But throughout history, the cliched comparison has been no mere metaphor for many stock exchanges. The crippling or disruption of exchanges by wars is nothing new, from the New York Stock & Exchange Board (today's NYSE) suspending trading in seceding states in 1861, to the arduous history of the Belgrade Stock Exchange, to the 1983 suspension of the Beirut Stock Exchange after nearly a decade of civil war in Lebanon. It reopened in 1995.
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.
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.