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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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- Lunch and Learn: Abraham Briloff on "A History of Accounting Scandals" 12/01/2010
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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- Walking Tour: Wall Street History 11/10/2010
The Museum's 90-minute walking tour of the Financial District.
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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.
- 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 History 08/25/2010
The Museum's 90-minute walking tour of the Financial District.
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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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- Financial History, Issue 97 Spring 2010
A history of Ponzi schemes, from Charles Ponzi to Bernie Madoff.
- 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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- 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.
- 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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- 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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- 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.
- 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.
- 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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- 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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- Wall Street History Makes Way for Famous Women 08/24/2009
The Museum of American Finance is showcasing 10 famous Wall Street women.
- 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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- Brown Bag Lunch: Open Out Cry Trading Demonstration 08/12/2009
A representative from the CME Group will present an interactive demonstration of open out cry trading.
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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.
- 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: 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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 89 Fall 2007
To understand fully the Crash and Panic of 1907, one must consider its context: it was a time somewhat like the present. A Republican moralist was in the White House. War was fresh in mind. Immigration was fueling dramatic changes in society. New technologies were changing people's everyday lives. Business consolidators and their Wall Street advisers were creating large, new combinations through mergers and acquisitions, while the government was investigating and prosecuting prominent executives -- led by an aggressive young prosecutor from New York. The public's attitude toward business leaders, fueled by a muckraking press, was largely negative. The government itself was becoming increasingly interventionist in society and, in some ways, more intrusive in individual life. Much of this was stimulated by a postwar economic expansion that, with brief interruptons, had lasted about 50 years, although in recent months a major natural disaster had disturbed the equilibrium of the nation's fragile financial system. As Mark Twain supposedly said, "History may not repeat itself, but it occasionally rhymes."
- Financial History, Issue 88 Spring 2007
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.
- 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 82 Fall 2004
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.
- 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.
- Curriculum Guide: Money
A classroom guide to the Museum's Money Room, including learning objectives, vocabulary, discussion questions and a classroom activity.
- Curriculum Guide: Entrepreneurs
A classroom guide to the "Entrepreneurs" 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.
- 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.
- Curriculum Guide: Banking in America
A classroom guide to the "Banking in America" exhibit, including learning objectives, vocabulary, discussion questions and a classroom activity.