It has been almost seven years since the mid-2006 peak of the spectacular U.S. housing bubble. With an American housing recovery now at last under way, it is a good time to re-state the ...

HISTORY LESSONS: Ferguson shares his views on the global financial crisis with an attentive crowd at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge. Photo by Keri D. Mabry/Harvard Crimson Professor Niall ...

Resident fellow Alex J. Pollock explores the parallels between the recent government bailout of the investment bank Bear Stearns and the government’s 1984 rescue of Continental Illinois, the largest ...

Noticing how historical context helped his clients ignore the constant pressure of noise and volatility, a financial planner wrote a 500-page treatise on American financial history to offer a bigger ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with author and Johns Hopkins University financial history professor, Kathleen Day, on the history of the debt ceiling. You may have heard this before. The federal government ...

There are moments in financial history that refuse to remain historical. They return not as anniversaries or archival curiosities, but as behavioural patterns that reappear whenever confidence ...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average has endured as the most widely reported figure for measuring the state of the US economy. In 2017, the Dow demolished several records. We trace the many changes it has ...