The Tontine Coffee-House
Anglo-French American Loan of 1915
Pujo Committee and the “Money Trust”
‘Secondary’ Banks, Money Markets, and a UK Property Bubble
Broker Failures and the Securities Investor Protection Corporation
Playing Card Money in Suriname
Dutch Influence on London Finance
Loans for Greek Independence, 1824-25
A 1690s Stock Market Bubble
When National City Bank Went International
The Stock Market’s ‘Confusion de Confusiones’
Banking Panic and a Shipwrecked Rescue
A New Fiscal System – Taxation After Communism
Venice’s 1499 Banking Crisis (Part II – Stumbling Towards Stability)
Venice’s 1499 Banking Crisis (Part I – Failure of Garzoni Bank)
Devaluations and the French ‘Mint Bills’
Dutch Bankers and Early American Credit
Brazil and Intervention in the Coffee Market
Consumer Credit in Post-War America
Polish Banking During Capitalist Transition
The Currency Crisis of 1920s France
Battle for the Erie Railroad
Financial Bombay in the Tumultuous 1860s
Bank Clerks in 19th Century Britain
Continental Illinois and the Origin of “Too Big to Fail”
Energy Loans and the Failure of Penn Square
Wartime Balance of Payments in Neutral Sweden
Japan’s Many Hansatsu Notes
Guinness’s 1886 IPO
Stephen Girard
The Cotton Market in 19th Century Liverpool
Hoare’s Bank in 18th Century London
The Höchstetters and the Mercury Market
The Federal Government’s Assumption of State Debts
Market Speculation During the U.S. Civil War
Cross-Border Central Bank Operations (Part II – 1840-1900)
Cross-Border Central Bank Operations (Part I – 1800-1840)
Stock Market Participation in the 1950s-60s
Inflation-Linked Bonds in Two Countries
Usury and the Creative ‘Triple Contracts’
Desjardins and Quebec’s Credit Union Movement
Landschaften Mortgage Bonds
The Double Dip Bond Bear Market of 1896-1920
New Orleans Banking During the Civil War
Piggly Wiggly’s Short Squeeze
Insurance in China (Part III – Rebirth)
Insurance in China (Part II – Mainland China)
Insurance in China (Part I – Hong Kong)
Rural Land and New Money
Schröders, Hamburg, and London
Armajaro’s Cocoa Trades
IPOs Since the 1920s
Toulouse Mills and Early Shareholding
Corporation of Foreign Bondholders
The Virginia Company and Its Several Motives
The Bank and the Bullionists (Part II – The Bullionists)
The Bank and the Bullionists (Part I – The Anti-Bullionists)
The 1920s American Real Estate Bubble
Creditanstalt and the Global Depression
Chile’s Caja de Crédito Hipotecario (Part II)
Chile’s Caja de Crédito Hipotecario (Part I)
Bank of Japan and the Economic Miracle
Australia’s 1850s Gold Rush
Sweden’s Älvsborg Ransoms and Fiscal Reforms
Combustion of a Hedge Fund – Amaranth Advisors
Radio Waves and Share Promotion
“Hope is Not Broken”, the Bankers Hope & Company