Investing in U.S. financial history understanding the past to forecast the future
Most people rely only on their life experiences to make investment decisions. This causes them to overlook cyclical forces that repeatedly reshape economies and markets. This book fills this void by recounting the financial history of the United States of America. It begins with Alexander Hamilton's...
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Austin, Texas :
Greenleaf Book Group Press,
[2024]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The value of studying U.S. financial history
- Building the foundation of the U.S. financial system (1790-1865). Overdue credit to America's financial founding father ; Speculation erupts on Wall Street ; The first Great Depression ; The rise of Wall Street and the paradox of speculation ; The economics of the Civil War
- Growth and grift in the Gilded Age (1866-1895). Rails across America ; The dark side of the tracks ; The American system of manufactures ; Wall Street's troubled adolescence ; The Panic of 1873 and the long-wave depression ; Free silver and the Panic of 1893
- Growing pains of an emerging empire (1896-1929). The American commercial invasion ; The last private lender of last resort ; War and pestilence ; A hollow roar on Wall Street
- The Great Depression and global destabilization (1930-1945). The last Great Depression ; The shaming of the Street ; Restoring confidence in America ; The world descends into darkness ; The U.S. arsenal of democracy
- The wealth of the American empire (1946-1982). The foundation of the new world order ; Institutions take the Street ; Inflated expectations
- The American empire strikes back (1893-2023). The second American commercial invasion ; Manufacturing portfolio complexity ; Sowing the seeds of discontent ; The ancient wonders of the present ; The great shadow bank run ; A decade of diminishing returns ; A 101-year pandemic ; Reflections on the past and shadows of America's future.
