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Happy 145th Anniversary!
I cannot let this day end without acknowledging the 145th anniversary of the failure of Overend, Gurney, and Company, which set off one of the 19th century’s more spectacular financial crises. Writing the day after the failure, the Times of … Continue reading
Europe’s Articles of Confederation
In his Financial History of the United States (1879), Albert Bolles wrote “Thought but little more than a century has passed since the first Continental Congress met, in September, 1774, the financial history of the United States during the subsequent … Continue reading
Historical perspective on the current crisis
Posted in Financial Crisis, Unsettled Account
Tagged bailouts, financial deregulation, financial lockdown, mergers, regulation, Unsettled Account
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Ireland’s Troubles
In a bitter editorial, The Irish Times laments the country’s financial difficulties in historical terms. Was it for this? IT MAY seem strange to some that The Irish Times would ask whether this is what the men of 1916 died … Continue reading
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Tagged bailouts, Bank of New South Wales, Banque de Belgique, Ireland, Patrick Honohan
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