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Crashes and Crises: Lessons from a History of Financial Disasters

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Overview

Learn the lessons of history’s greatest financial scams and disasters. An award-winning economist shows that forewarned is forearmed.

Syllabus

  • By This Professor
  • 01: Fintech, Crypto, and the Future of Disaster
  • 02: The Con Men Charles Ponzi and Ivar Kreuger
  • 03: A Boom in Busts
  • 04: The Tulip Bubble
  • 05: The South Sea Bubble
  • 06: The Mississippi Bubble
  • 07: Holes in the Ground: Mining Stock Frauds
  • 08: The Panic of 1907
  • 09: Hyperinflation in Germany and Zimbabwe
  • 10: The Crash of 1929
  • 11: The Great Contraction of 1931–1933
  • 12: The Savings and Loan Crisis
  • 13: The Crash of 1987
  • 14: Japan’s Lost Decade
  • 15: Bankers Trust Swaps
  • 16: Asia, Greece, and Global Contagion
  • 17: The Orange County, California, Bankruptcy
  • 18: The Dotcom Bubble
  • 19: Rogue Traders at SocGen and Barings
  • 20: Unhedged! Long-Term Capital Management
  • 21: The London Whale and Value at Risk
  • 22: The Goldilocks Economy and Three Bads
  • 23: Subprime Debt and the Run on Wall Street
  • 24: China’s Shadow Banks

Taught by

Connel Fullenkamp

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