Booms, Bubbles and Busts: Spectacular Moments in New York Banking History at the Museum of the City of New York

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Office of E.L. Oppenheime​r and Co.; prices of stocks and commodities​s were hand posted as reported by the ticker tape, 1899

New York, NY (PRWEB) June 18, 2012

The panic of 1873, the crash of 1929, the bull market of 1990s, the foreclosure crisis of 2007–8. The history of Wall Street is a series of speculative ups and crashing downs. Mark Gongloff, the chief financial writer for the Huffington Post, moderates a panel discussion featuring historian Steven Fraser, author of Every Man a Speculator (HarperCollins, 2005), financial analyst and journalist Barry Ritholtz, author of Bailout Nation (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2009), and Robert E. Wright, professor at Augustana College, to discuss some of the pivotal moments in banking history and how they’ve created a cyclical economic narrative.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Capital of Capital and in partnership with the Museum of American Finance.

RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
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$12 Non-members; $8 Seniors and Students; $6 Museum Members
*A two dollar surcharge applies for unreserved, walk-in participants.

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