Financial History, Issue 117

Financial History Magazine

Issue 117 | Spring 2016

  • First Entrepreneur: George Washington, by Edward G. Lengel
  • Doing Well by Doing Good: Catastrophe Bonds, by Gregory DL Morris
  • Municipal Insolvency in the 1930s, by Frederick J. Sheehan Jr.
  • America's First Black Friday: The Gold Panic of 1869, by Donald P. Morgan and James Narron
  • A Self-Made Man on Wall Street: Elias Cornelius Benedict, by Whitney McKendree Moore
  • Wall Street Women Celebrate Milestone: 60 Years of the FWA, by Kimberly Weinrick and Ria Davis