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People (1)
J.P. Morgan
Banker, Financier, and Architect of American Industrial Power
Eras (1)
The Great Depression
The economic catastrophe of 1929–1941 that reshaped American life and government
Events (9)
Election of 1896
McKinley vs. Bryan — gold, silver, and the soul of American capitalism
Great Recession of 2008
The worst financial crisis since the Great Depression — and the collapse that remade American politics
Occupy Wall Street
The 2011 protest that put economic inequality on the agenda
Panic of 1837
The financial collapse that destroyed Martin Van Buren's presidency and lasted seven years
Panic of 1873
The railroad collapse that triggered the Long Depression and ended Reconstruction
Panic of 1893
The worst depression before the 1930s — and the crisis that made William Jennings Bryan
Stock Market Crash of 1929
The financial collapse that triggered the Great Depression
The Great Depression
The worst economic catastrophe in American history
The Panic of 1907
The banking crisis that one man stopped — and that created the Fed
Documents (1)
The Currency Act
The 1764 ban on colonial paper money
Concepts (1)
Financial Panics and Crashes
The recurring booms and busts that have shaped the American economy
Organizations (9)
Standard Oil
Rockefeller's oil empire — the monopoly that remade American business, 1870–1911
The Federal Reserve
The central bank created in 1913 to tame the financial panics that had wrecked the economy for a century
The First Bank of the United States
Hamilton's 1791 experiment in national finance — and the fight it started
The Second Bank of the United States
The national bank Andrew Jackson set out to destroy, 1816–1836
The Securities and Exchange Commission
The New Deal watchdog created to police Wall Street, 1934
The Wall Street Journal
The business paper that measured the market, founded 1889
The World Bank and IMF
The Bretton Woods twins America built to run the global economy, 1944
The World Trade Organization
The referee of global trade, from GATT in 1947 to the WTO in 1995
U.S. Steel
The 1901 merger that made the world's first billion-dollar corporation
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