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Financial panics

10 crises holding 129 books. Each opens its own page with its books, tier first, and the people who recommend them.

Asia, Russia and Long-Term Capital, 1997 to 1998The Asian currency crisis, Russia's default and the rescue of Long-Term Capital Management.6 books
Booms and panics, 1880s to 1920sLand booms and bank panics before the Federal Reserve: Melbourne in the 1880s, the Panic of 1907, the closing of the New York Stock Exchange in 1914…4 books
Iceland, Ireland and the euro crisisThe collapse of Iceland's banks in 2008, Ireland's property and banking bust, and the euro area's debt crisis.13 books
Japan's bubble and its aftermathThe Japanese stock and property bubble of the late 1980s and the bank failures of the decade after it.2 books
Manias, panics and crashes across historyHistories and theories of speculation, crowds and debt crises that span several episodes, from Mackay and Kindleberger to Reinhart and Rogoff and…24 books
Penn Central, the 1973 crash and New York's near-defaultThe largest bankruptcy of its time, the 1973 to 1974 bear market and New York City's fiscal crisis of 1975.3 books
The 1929 crash and the Great DepressionThe stock market boom of the 1920s, the crash of October 1929, the bank failures and the depression that followed, and the gold standard that spread…17 books
The 2008 financial crisisThe American housing and mortgage bust, the failures of Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and AIG, and the rescues that followed.50 books
The dot-com bubbleThe technology and internet share boom of the late 1990s and its collapse in 2000 to 2002.5 books
Tulips, the South Sea and Mississippi bubblesThe first speculative manias, from Dutch tulips in the 1630s to John Law's Mississippi scheme and the South Sea Bubble of 1720.5 books

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