Topic: Financial Markets

Money and Banking

Fearless: Wilma Soss and America’s Forgotten Investor Movement

Genealogy of American Finance

Financial Exclusion: How Competition Can Fix a Broken System

The WSJ Guide to the 50 Economic Indicators That Really Matter: From Big Macs to “Zombie Banks,” the Indicators Smart Investors Watch to Beat the Market

The First Wall Street: Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, and the Birth of American Finance

The History of Corporate Finance: Developments of Anglo-American Securities Markets, Financial Practices, Theories and Laws (Vol. 3)

The History of Corporate Governance: The Importance of Stakeholder Activism 

Fed Raises Rate, But Signals Potential Pause in May

“In 2021 they were looking for help from recovering supply chains. Now, they are looking for help from tight financial markets. It’s time FOMC members help themselves — or, God help us all.” ~ William J. Luther

Words & Numbers: Peter C. Earle On The Death of Silicon Valley Bank

“Peter C. Earle, AIER Research Faculty and former Wall Street trader, joins AIER Senior Editor James Harrigan and Antony Davies on the Words & Numbers podcast to talk about what happened to Silicon Valley Bank.” ~ AIER

Is it a LOLR? No, It’s a Trap

“The reason this is infuriating is that we are being told that taxpayers should be willing to double down, to reimburse even-more-careless depositors for their negligent inattention to risk.” ~ Michael C. Munger

FDIC: No Savior Then or Now

“It is not clear that some sort of enhanced stockholder liability has yet returned to the Overton Window, but it is possible that Americans will point out the hypocrisy of the Biden administration’s raising taxes on the rich with one hand while bailing them out with the other.” ~ Robert E. Wright