In the fall of 1873, Jay Cooke—the richest banker in America, the man who had financed the Union war effort and was considered a sure hand—announced he could not complete the financing of the…
Liaquat Ahamed has appeared on 3 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including Prof G Markets, Merryn Talks Money, Monetary Matters with Jack Farley. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
In the fall of 1873, Jay Cooke—the richest banker in America, the man who had financed the Union war effort and was considered a sure hand—announced he could not complete the financing of the…
In the run-up to the 1873 crash, the global economy was booming on the back of gold discoveries, a fivefold expansion of the bond market, and a frenzy of railway construction. Then a single war…
In 1873, a single year produced a sequence of financial crises in three different financial centers, superimposed on a chaotic reordering of the global monetary system that very few people know…
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