Crashes and Crises: Lessons from a History of Financial Disasters
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
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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