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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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Join us for a screening of the new PBS documentary, Rediscovering Alexander Hamilton, with commentary by producer/director Michael Pack.
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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 walking tour of the Financial District, focusing on the history of Wall Street from the Dutch settlement to today.
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The Museum's 90-minute walking tour of the Financial District.
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To commemorate the anniversary of the Crash of 1929, "Scandal!" exhibit curator Marc Hodak will speak on "A History of Scandal" at this Kaufman Series event.
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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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The Museum's 90-minute walking tour of the Financial District, focusing on the history of financial scandals.
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Help relive the Great Crash of 1929 on its 81st anniversary. The Museum's annual guided walking tour of Lower Manhattan will be held on Saturday, October 30, at 1 pm.
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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, focusing on the history of financial scandals.
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"America’s First IPO” is an exhibit on the country’s first public company, the Bank of North America, and the origins of the US stock market. It features some of the nation’s most important founding financial documents.
On September 15, the Museum will open “America’s First IPO,” an exhibit on the country’s first public company, the Bank of North America, and the origins of the US stock market.
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The Museum will publish a beautifully illustrated book on the story of the beginning of the equity side of the American capital markets.
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The Museum's 90-minute walking tour of the Financial District.
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“Scandal! Financial Crime, Chicanery and Corruption That Rocked America,” up now at the Museum of American Finance, is a little time-tunnel survey of mostly historic scams perpetrated on unsuspecting investors.
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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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Bring the family to the Museum's “Kids Club” event, which will feature fun money-themed activities and programs for children in grades K-12.
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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 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.
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The Museum's 90-minute walking tour of the Financial District with a focus on Hamilton and his contributions to American finance.
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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.
The June 2010 edition of History Now, the electronic newsletter of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, features an interactive presentation of the "Scandal!" exhibit as well as an article by Museum Chairman Dr. Richard Sylla.
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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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The Museum's 90-minute walking tour of the Financial District, focusing on the history of financial scandals.
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Please join the Museum's Young Leadership Council for a young professionals networking event and private viewing of hidden treasures from the Museum’s collection.
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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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A new exhibit at the Museum of American Finance examines the scandals of Wall Street, past and present. Reuters TV's Bobbi Rebell reports.
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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.
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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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Museum of American Finance Vice Chairman Richard Sylla speaks to Fox Business about Alexander Hamilton’s role in creating the U.S. economic system.
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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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Author Tom Fleming will speak about his forthcoming book, The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers.
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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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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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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.
The Museum of American Finance and the New School for Social Research present an expert panel on the different explanations of the current crisis on the 80th anniversary of the Crash of 1929.
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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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Help relive the Great Crash of 1929 on the 21st 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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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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"Actien Handel" (which means share trading) is a celebration of the financial ties between the United States and the Netherlands, and focuses on how intricately linked the two nations were in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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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Join us for a Brown Bag Lunch with Ray Raphael, author of Founders: The People Who Brought You a Nation (2009), for a talk on "THE Financier: Robert Morris, America's Original Bailout Czar."
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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 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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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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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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Please join us for a reception to open “Actien Handel: Early Dutch Finance and the Founding of America.” This event is free and open to the public.
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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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Exhibit will feature the earliest known share certificate -- the document featured in the motion picture "Ocean's Twelve."
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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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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 Alexander Hamilton and his contributions to financial history.
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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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Learn about the history of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) and its role within the world’s largest futures exchange, CME Group. Feel free to bring your lunch.
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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 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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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 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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The Museum's monthly 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 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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Like any cultural force concerned about its legacy, the financial world has a custodian of its past. On Wall Street, it can be found at the Museum of American Finance, just a block from the New York Stock Exchange.
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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 will offer monthly finance-themed walking tours of the Financial District beginning in October.
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Taking a long-run view of the development of financial services, Professor Ferguson argues that evolutionary forces are as much at work in the realm of money as they are in the natural world. As the subprime mortgage crisis works its way through the global financial system, the coming months will determine how far, in terms of its economic impact, the current crisis is a true "ice age" as opposed to just a severe winter.
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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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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.
On August 12, 1984, Peter Ueberroth stood in the Los Angeles Coliseum during the Olympic closing ceremonies, tears escaping his usually tight control as the 93,000-member audience stood and cheered. Other honors would follow, including recognition from "Time" as the magazine's Man of the Year, over President Ronald Reagan. Neither an athlete nor a statesman nor a celebrity, Ueberroth was a middle-aged entrepreneur from Southern California, a self-made man who had, in large part, made the Games of the 23rd Olympiad happen -- and not only happen, but succeed on a spectacular level. In doing so, he changed many of the financial rules by which the Olympics had been played.
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.
One out of every two beers sold in the U.S. is brewed by Anheuser-Busch of St. Louis, MO. The family-run company traces its origins to the 1860s, but 2002 marks the first time in the company's 142-year history that its president and chief executive will be a non-family member.
The development of underwriting syndicates is a phenomenon of late 19th century America arising out of the need for investment banks to pool their own capital to underwrite the new issue securities being sold to fund the growth of American industry. The railroad, steel, mining and utility industries all had significant capital requirements.
Long before Enron, Samuel Insull, Richard Whitney and Charles Keating were bilking investors out of millions, infuriating investigators, embarrassing politicians and forever endearing themselves to headline-hungry journalists.
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 will teach students who are new to investing how to analyze a stock.
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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 "Alexander Hamilton" exhibit, including learning objectives, vocabulary, discussion questions and a classroom activity.