Wall Street

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/9/2021
  

  The Great White(washing) Way: Business History on Broadway Without Slavery

  by Imani Perry

  The new show "The Lehman Trilogy" tells a heroic story of German Jewish immigrant brothers who rose to the top of American finance, but it tells it without reference to the labor of enslaved people that made it possible. 

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• SOURCE: Financial Times
  2/7/2021
  

  The Biggest Lesson of GameStop

  The GameStop episode highlights a dangerous development in the last 40 years of capitalism's history: the linking of broad-based purchasing power to the fluctuating prices of financial assets held in retirement accounts. 

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• SOURCE: Untapped New York
  9/16/2020
  

  It’s the 100th Anniversary of the Wall Street Bombing

  Though authorities blamed Italian anarchists and other radical sympathizers for the destructive bombing, the case was never solved. 

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• SOURCE: Reuters
  9/25/19
  

  Trump impeachment? History suggests Wall Street ought not worry

  The move by Democrats in the U.S. Congress on Tuesday to launch a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump has caused nervousness on Wall Street - but history suggests investors need not worry.

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• SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
  8-15-18 (accessed)
  

  The Forgotten History of the Financial Crisis

  by Adam Tooze

  What the world should have learned in 2008 is that foreign banks were racking up sizable liabilities that had to be paid in dollars. If the money markets where they obtained these dollars ceased to function, many of the world’s banks would immediately be at risk of failure.

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• 4/15/18
  

  How Come Wall Street Hasn’t Been Caught Up in the #MeToo Movement?

  by Robert Wright

  The short answer: They’ve already been here before.

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• SOURCE: The Street
  3-6-18
  

  Video of the Week: Wall Street Women In History ... Meet the First Female Stockbroker

  by Tracy Byrnes

  Her name was Victoria Woodhull. She later ran for president. 

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• SOURCE: NYT
  10-17-16
  

  Wall Street Dealmaker Says Professor Took Him for a Ride

  Andrew J. Hall, a trader and operator of an art museum, is suing a former professor who he says sold him fake Leon Golub paintings.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  10-5-16
  

  Want to know who will win the White House? Watch the stock market.

  Wall Street is often right about presidential elections. It's banking on Donald Trump.

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• SOURCE: AHA Perspectives on History
  3-23-16 (accessed)
  

  Story of the Week: Wall Street's First Black Millionaire

  by Elizabeth Elliott

  Jeremiah Hamilton’s impressive and unlikely rise to infamy captured the attention of Australian Shane White, a professor of US history at the University of Sydney.

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• 11-29-15
  

  This Historian Has Some Advice for Bernie

  by Bruce E. Baker

  The candidate should take it if he wants to put a stop to financial shenanigans.

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• 7-7-15
  

  On Wall Street: Slavery Lost, Found, and Remembered

  by Pearl Duncan

  The slave market that once existed on Wall Street is long gone. But we shouldn’t let absence define our memory.

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• 8-3-14
  

  Argentina Defaults. The U.S. Didn’t. You Think There's a Lesson in that?

  by David O. Stewart

  In 1790 speculators stood to gain, too. Hamilton paid them anyway.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  11-13-13
  

  Getting Down to Big Business: A Conservative American Romance

  by Rick Perlstein

  "Wall Street" used to be a derisive term amongst conservatives.

• SOURCE: Bloomberg News
  7-10-13
  

  Melissa S. Fisher: How Women Rose and Took the Fall on Wall Street

  Melissa S. Fisher, a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, is the author of “Wall Street Women.”When Ina Drew resigned as JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM)’s chief investment officer last year after reports the bank lost more than $6 billion, the New York Times referred to her as “the woman who took the fall.”It is up for debate whether financial companies have scapegoated women such as Drew in the aftermath of the financial crisis. What is certain is that just half a century ago it was unimaginable that women might make it high enough in the ranks of Wall Street to take the fall for anything.

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• Meet Richard Whitney, Wall Street's 1930s Version of Bernie Madoff

  by Malcolm Mackay

  Richard Whitney being led away after his trial. Credit: AP/Kings Academy.