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1982 was a year that marked the start of almost four decades of US economic growth. However, this classic Wall Street story has never been fully told until now.
After painful years of high interest rates and the inflation of the late 1960s and 1970s, consumers were paying 17% and higher to borrow money. But by the end of one summer day almost 40 years ago, the stock market had undergone its second-biggest rally since WWII, while bond prices soared and interest rates plunged. [Read more…] about The 1982 Day The Markets Roared
The Museum of American Finance will host a webinar talk about Jay Gould and the Union Pacific from the Panic of 1873 to 1880 with Joseph Calandro, Jr. on Tuesday, February 2nd, from noon to 1 pm.
On Thursday, July 12, 2018 from 12:30 to 1:30 pm, Historian and author William Hogeland, a contributor to Historians on Hamilton (Rutgers University Press, 2018), will speak on how Alexander Hamilton’s national financial plan worked, why the public remains generally unaware of the details, the extremes Hamilton was willing to go to in order to bring the plan about, and why his opponents (Jefferson, Madison and Gallatin) couldn’t fully dismantle it during 16 years of Democratic Republican administration. The talk will be followed by Q&A. 
On Wednesday, February 22, the Museum of American Finance will open “For the Love of Money: Blacks on US Currency,” a traveling exhibit on loan from the Museum of UnCut Funk.
Last week the Museum of American Finance launched a 12-stop audio tour of its permanent exhibits. The tour was developed in partnership with Antenna – a multi-media story-telling company – and is narrated by a variety of experts including the Museum’s president and curators, as well as CNN founding financial editor Myron Kandel and architectural historian Damien Cregeau. 
