2000s

A speculative bubble in internet and technology stocks from 1995 to 2000. The NASDAQ rose 400 percen...

The worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, triggered by the subprime mortgage market col...

Google went public on August 19, 2004 using a unique Dutch auction method at 85 dollars per share. T...

In October 2008, Volkswagen briefly became the most valuable company in the world during a massive s...

A sovereign debt crisis that threatened the eurozone. In October 2009, Greece revealed its budget de...

The Federal Reserve launched quantitative easing in November 2008, buying 600 billion in mortgage ba...

On October 31, 2008, an anonymous person or group called Satoshi Nakamoto published a 9 page paper t...

Argentina defaulted on 93 billion dollars of debt in December 2001, the largest sovereign default in...

Enron, once the seventh largest company in America, filed for bankruptcy on December 2, 2001. The co...

WorldCom, a major telecommunications company, filed for bankruptcy in July 2002 after revealing 3.8 ...

Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on September 15, 2008, the largest bankruptcy filing...

Bernie Madoffs Ponzi scheme, revealed in December 2008, was the largest financial fraud in history. ...

Visa went public on March 19, 2008, raising 17.9 billion, the largest US IPO at the time. This occur...

Netflix went public on May 23, 2002 at 15 per share. The company had started as a DVD rental by mail...

The Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 lowered capital gains taxes from 20 to 15 ...

Zimbabwe experienced the second worst hyperinflation in history in 2008. Annual inflation reached 89...

In 2005 to 2008, China launched put warrants on stocks that became speculative manias. Retail invest...

The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive took effect in 2007, creating a single market for fin...

The stock market recovery during the Obama presidency from March 2009 to January 2017 was one of the...

William Bernsteins 2002 book The Four Pillars of Investing became a foundational text of modern inve...

The quantitative investing revolution transformed finance starting in the 2000s. Mathematical models...

The US housing bubble from 2000 to 2006 saw home prices rise 85 percent nationally. In some markets ...

The New York Stock Exchange, long a bastion of floor traders and specialists, embraced electronic tr...

The dot com crash destroyed 5 trillion in market value from March 2000 to October 2002. The NASDAQ f...

In November 2002, Federal Reserve Governor Ben Bernanke gave a speech about preventing deflation. He...

In January 2000, Ecuador abandoned its currency, the sucre, and adopted the US dollar. The decision ...

Crowdfunding emerged in the late 2000s as a new way to raise capital. Kickstarter, founded in 2009, ...