Showing posts with label finance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label finance. Show all posts
Apr 30, 2013

Coxey's Army

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(Wikipedia) Coxey's Army was a protest march by unemployed workers from the United States, led by the populist Jacob Coxey. They marche...
Mar 9, 2013

Emergency Banking Act

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(Wikipedia) The Emergency Banking Act (the official title of which was the Emergency Banking Relief Act) was an act of the United States Co...
Jan 28, 2013

Dollar Princesses: The American heiresses who inspired Downton Abbey

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  (thedailybeast) ... Yet these American girls paid a price for their strawberry leaves and coronets. Most had grown up in modern homes...
Oct 24, 2012

Stock Market Crash of 1929

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(Wikipedia) The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash or the Stock Market Crash of 1929, was the most devastating sto...
Oct 22, 2012

The Panic of 1907

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(Wikipedia) The Panic of 1907, also known as the 1907 Bankers' Panic, was a financial crisis that occurred in the United States wh...
Jun 21, 2012

Penn Central Goes Belly Up

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(Wikipedia) ... The American financial system was shocked when after only two years of operations, the Penn Central Transportation Compan...
Jul 8, 2011

The lowest point

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(LoC) On July 8, 1932, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell to its lowest point during the Great Depression. This event was symptomatic of ...
Jun 15, 2011

Martin Baum

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Martin Baum (15 June 1765 in Hagerstown, Maryland – 14 December 1831 in Cincinnati, Ohio) was an American businessman and politician. The so...
Apr 30, 2011

Coxey's Army

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(Wikipedia) Coxey's Army was a protest march by unemployed workers from the United States, led by the populist Jacob Coxey. They marched...
Jan 30, 2011

Moneymakers: The Wicked Lives and Surprising Adventures of Three Notorious Counterfeiters

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(NYTBR) ... what elevates “Moneymakers” from the novelty shelf is Tarnoff’s skillful interweaving of the counterfeiter’s work and America’s ...
Jan 8, 2011

1835: The United States national debt is 0 for the only time

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(Wikipedia) The United States has had public debt since its inception. Debts incurred during the American Revolutionary War and under the Ar...
Jan 6, 2011

The South Sea Bubble

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"I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men." - Sir Isaac Newton (Wikipedia) The South Sea Company was ...
Nov 22, 2010

How Economic Brawn Transformed a Nation

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(NYTBR) It has often been noted that while the American union was established by the Revolution, the American nation was forged only upon th...
Oct 28, 2010

Historic Yorktowne Hotel owners surprised by filing

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(YDR) The owners of the Yorktowne Hotel had been attempting to amend the terms of its loan with PNC Bank when they received a surprise. On F...
Oct 22, 2010

Panic of 1907

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(Wikipedia) The Panic of 1907, also known as the 1907 Bankers' Panic, was a financial crisis that occurred in the United States when its...
Oct 20, 2010

The Legend of Coal Oil Johnny, America's Great Forgotten Parable

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(the Atlantic) Surely you've heard of Coal Oil Johnny, right? Before J.R. Ewing, or the Beverly Hillbillies, or even John D. Rockefeller...
Oct 9, 2010

Lewes shipwreck site a window into 1770s economy

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(Delaware Online) The wine: imported from South Africa; the porcelain from China, the bottled water from Germany. More evidence of a global ...
Sep 30, 2010

First World War officially ends on Sunday

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(Yahoo! News) The First World War will officially end on Sunday when Germany pays off the last of the enormous debt which was set by the All...
Aug 24, 2010

The Panic of 1857

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(LoC) The major financial catalyst for the panic of 1857 was the August 24, 1857, failure of the New York branch of the Ohio Life Insurance ...
Jul 17, 2010

1997: The F.W. Woolworth Company closes after 117 years

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(Wikipedia) The F.W. Woolworth Co. was among the first five-and-dime stores, which sold discounted general merchandise at fixed prices, usua...