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- Great Crash Anniversary Walking Tour 10/29/2011
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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- Screening of Rediscovering Alexander Hamilton with Commentary by Michael Pack 05/24/2011
Join us for a screening of the new PBS documentary, Rediscovering Alexander Hamilton, with commentary by producer/director Michael Pack.
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- Walking Tour: Holidays on the Street 12/04/2010
The Museum's 90-minute holiday-themed walking tour of Wall Street.
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- Walking Tour: Wall Street History from the Dutch to Today 11/20/2010
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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- Walking Tour: Wall Street History 11/10/2010
The Museum's 90-minute walking tour of the Financial District.
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- Marc Hodak on "A History of Scandal" 10/28/2010
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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- Whither Wall Street: The Recent Past and Evolving Future of the Architecture of Wall Street 10/13/2010
Presented in conjunction with the Skyscraper Museum, this Kaufman Series event will explore the rich architectural history of Wall Street.
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- A Monopoly Board That's Too Rich for Wall Street 10/13/2010
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.
- Walking Tour: Wall Street Scandals 10/09/2010
The Museum's 90-minute walking tour of the Financial District, focusing on the history of financial scandals.
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- Financial History, Issue 98 Fall 2010
How the colonial real estate crisis of the 1760s turned Sheriff John Morton into a rebel.
- Walking Tour: Wall Street Scandals 09/25/2010
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 September 15, 2010 - March 5, 2011
"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.
- Walking Tour: Wall Street History 08/25/2010
The Museum's 90-minute walking tour of the Financial District.
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- The Money Pits 08/15/2010
“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.
- Walking Tour: Wall Street Scandals 08/14/2010
The Museum's 90-minute walking tour of the Financial District, focusing on the history of financial scandals.
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- Kids Club Saturday 07/31/2010
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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- Walking Tour: Wall Street Scandals 07/21/2010
The Museum's 90-minute walking tour of the Financial District, focusing on the history of financial scandals.
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- Of Scoundrels and Scandals 07/18/2010
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.
- Walking Tour: Alexander Hamilton's New York 07/10/2010
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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- Lunch and Learn: Past, Present and Future of Energy Trading 06/30/2010
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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- Walking Tour: History of Wall Street 06/30/2010
The Museum's 90-minute walking tour of the Financial District.
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- History Now Features Interactive Slideshow of "Scandal!" Exhibit 06/23/2010
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.
- Financial History, Issue 97 Spring 2010
A history of Ponzi schemes, from Charles Ponzi to Bernie Madoff.
- Economists Examine Likelihood of Double Dip Recession 06/15/2010
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.
- Museum presents exhibit "Scandal! Financial Crime, Chicanery and Corruption That Rocked America" 06/13/2010
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.
- Walking Tour: Wall Street Scandals 06/12/2010
The Museum's 90-minute walking tour of the Financial District, focusing on the history of financial scandals.
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- Young Professionals Event: Hidden Treasures of the Museum 06/03/2010
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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- Fleet Week Walking Tour 05/26/2010
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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- Walking Tour: Financial Architecture 05/15/2010
The Museum's 90-minute walking tour of the Financial District, focusing on Wall Street's architecture.
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- Wall Street Scandals on Display 04/30/2010
A new exhibit at the Museum of American Finance examines the scandals of Wall Street, past and present. Reuters TV's Bobbi Rebell reports.
- Exhibit Director Reviews "Enron" on Broadway 04/30/2010
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.
- Museum Exhibit on Financial Scandal May Need an Update 04/30/2010
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.
- Scandal! On display April 29, 2010 - October 22, 2011
"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.
- Walking Tour: Wall Street Scandals 04/28/2010
The Museum's 90-minute walking tour of the Financial District, focusing on the history of financial scandals.
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- Walking Tour: Wall Street Scandals 04/17/2010
The Museum's 90-minute walking tour of the Financial District, focusing on the history of financial scandals.
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- Walking Tour: History of Wall Street 03/31/2010
The Museum's 90-minute walking tour of the Financial District.
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- Walking Tour: History of Wall Street 03/13/2010
The Museum's 90-minute walking tour of the Financial District.
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- Walking Tour: Revolutionary New York 02/18/2010
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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- Walking Tour: Hamilton's New York 01/23/2010
This 90-minute walking tour of the Financial District focuses on Alexander Hamilton's contributions to financial history.
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- Did Economists Get It Wrong? 01/08/2010
Thirteen Forum's coverage of the Museum's expert panel on the 80th anniversary of the Crash of 1929.
- Walking Tour: Holidays on the Street 12/22/2009
The Museum's 90-minute holiday-themed walking tour of Wall Street.
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- Gov Goes to Bat for Wall Street 12/10/2009
"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.
- Paterson Goes to Wall Street With Words of Thanks 12/10/2009
Gov. David A. Paterson went to [the Museum of American Finance] on Wall Street on Wednesday, not to pillory financiers, but to praise them.
- Paterson: State Has Run Out of Cash 12/09/2009
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."
- Paterson, On Wall Street, Defends Financial Sector 12/09/2009
Speaking at the Museum of American Finance on Wall Street, Governor Paterson offered a sympathetic voice to the much-maligned financial sector.
- New York's Economic Future December 9, 2009
Gov. David Paterson discusses New York's troubled economy with CNBC's Scott Cohn at the Museum of American Finance.
- Walking Tour: Holidays on the Street 12/05/2009
The Museum's 90-minute holiday-themed walking tour of Wall Street.
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- New York Special Screening of "Floored" 12/03/2009
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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- Brown Bag Lunch: Tom Fleming on "Washington and Hamilton: The Troubled Friendship That Transformed America" 12/02/2009
Author Tom Fleming will speak about his forthcoming book, The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers.
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- Bestselling Author Lawrence McDonald on A Colossal Failure of Common Sense 11/19/2009
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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- Walking Tour: Women of Wall Street 11/17/2009
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: History of Wall Street 11/07/2009
The Museum's 90-minute walking tour of the Financial District.
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- Author Charles Geisst on Collateral Damaged 11/05/2009
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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- Financial History, Issue 95 Fall 2009
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.
- Follow the Money, and the History 11/05/2009
What you really need is a bit of perspective, and that is to be found at the Museum of American Finance.
- Did Economists Get It Wrong? 10/29/2009
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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- Great Crash Anniversary Walking Tour 10/24/2009
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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- Actien Handel September 8 - October 17, 2009
"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.
- Wanted: Hard-Luck Stories 10/12/2009
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.
- Walking Tour: History of Trading 10/09/2009
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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- Sallie Krawcheck: The Big Job She Didn't Take 10/08/2009
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.
- A Conversation with Sallie Krawcheck 10/07/2009
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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- Brown Bag Lunch: Robert Morris, America's Original Bailout Czar 10/01/2009
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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- Walking Tour: Women of Wall Street 09/30/2009
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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- Brother, Can You Give Your Two Cents’ Worth to the Recession Wiki? 09/30/2009
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.
- Henry Kaufman on The Road to Financial Reformation 09/22/2009
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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- Walking Tour: History of Trading 09/12/2009
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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- Reception to Open "Actien Handel" 09/10/2009
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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- Wall Street History Makes Way for Famous Women 08/24/2009
The Museum of American Finance is showcasing 10 famous Wall Street women.
- Credit Crisis is a Big Draw for Finance Museum 08/22/2009
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.
- Walking Tour: History of Trading 08/19/2009
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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- Walking Tour: History of Trading 08/19/2009
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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- Exhibit: Up Against the Wall, Street 08/02/2009
Museum of American Finance exhibit takes a look at the female wheeler-dealers who broke into the exclusive boys' club.
- Brown Bag Lunch: Demystifying Financial Market Turmoil 07/22/2009
Learn about the drivers of the global financial crisis, from housing and commodities to credit and currencies.
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- Walking Tour: Women of Wall Street 07/21/2009
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: Alexander Hamilton's New York 07/11/2009
Walking tour of the Financial District with a focus on Hamilton and his contributions to American finance.
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- Walking Tour: Alexander Hamilton's New York 07/11/2009
Walking tour of the Financial District with a focus on Alexander Hamilton and his contributions to financial history.
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- Walking Tour: Women of Wall Street 06/20/2009
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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- Brown Bag Lunch: Commodity Futures Exchange 06/10/2009
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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- Honoring the Women of Wall Street 06/10/2009
Former NYMEX President Rosemary McFadden speaks to Fox Business about the Museum's new exhibit.
- Opening Reception: "Women of Wall Street" Exhibit 06/09/2009
Reception to open the Museum's groundbreaking new exhibit, "Women of Wall Street."
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- Wall Street Walking Tour 06/06/2009
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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- Museum Celebrates the Women of Wall Street 06/04/2009
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.
- Walking Tour: Stock Market Anniversary Tour 05/30/2009
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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- Visitors Seek Answers at Museum of American Finance 05/16/2009
At the Museum of American Finance, visitors are clamouring for a take on the current economic situation.
- Wall Street Walking Tour: May 2 05/02/2009
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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- Wall Street Walking Tour: April 18 04/18/2009
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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- Biographer Jean Strouse on "What Would Morgan Do? Financial Crises Past and Present" 04/14/2009
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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- History in the Making 04/01/2009
The Museum of American Finance isn't wasting any time and has already established a credit crisis exhibit.
- The Credit Crisis is Already Fodder for a Museum 03/31/2009
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.
- Wall Street Walking Tour: March 28 03/28/2009
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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- Museum Exhibit Tracks Global Financial Crisis 03/27/2009
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.
- "Tracking the Credit Crisis" Press Conference 03/25/2009
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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- Museum is Tracking the Credit Crunch March 26, 2009
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.
- Wall Street Walking Tour: March 7 03/07/2009
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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- Walking Tour: Revolutionary New York 02/21/2009
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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- Walking Tour: Alexander Hamilton's New York 01/31/2009
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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- Global Financial Crisis: Causes and Cures 12/16/2008
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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- Financial History, Issue 92 Fall 2008
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.
- Opening Reception: “Trading on the Street" 11/19/2008
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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- U.S. and European Perspectives on the Credit Crunch -- Who Pays the Bill? 11/05/2008
Panel discussion on the financial crisis from a US and UK perspective.
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- Financial Evolution 02/27/2008
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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- Panic of 1907 Panel 10/26/2007
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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- Financial History, Issue 82 Fall 2004
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.
- Financial History, Issue 81 Spring 2004
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.
- Financial History, Issue 79 Fall 2003
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?
- Financial History, Issue 78 Spring 2003
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.
- Financial History, Issue 77 Winter 2002
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.
- Financial History, Issue 76 Summer 2002
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.
- Financial History, Issue 75 Spring 2002
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.
- Curriculum Guide: Alexander Hamilton
A classroom guide to the "Alexander Hamilton" exhibit, including learning objectives, vocabulary, discussion questions and a classroom activity.
- Curriculum Guide: The Financial Markets
A classroom guide to "The Financial Markets" exhibit, including learning objectives, vocabulary, discussion questions and a classroom activity.
- Elementary School Activity Sheet
Exhibit-based games and activities for students in grades K-5.
- Financial History, Issue 94 Spring/Summer 2009
How a Group of Business Students Sold Enron
a Year Before the CollapseIt 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.