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Crashes and Crises: Lessons from a History of Financial Disasters

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English
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11 hours 35 minutes
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Intermediate

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

Syllabus

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
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Taught by

Connel Fullenkamp

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