Early 20th Century
20 entries
Panic of 1901
A stock market crash triggered by the fight for control of the Northern Pacific Railway between E H ...
Panic of 1907
A financial crisis triggered by a failed attempt to corner the copper market. The panic caused bank ...
Wall Street Crash of 1929
The most devastating stock market crash in American history. After a decade of speculation known as ...
Florida Land Boom
A real estate bubble in Florida in the 1920s. Land that sold for 800 per acre was flipped for 20,000...
Roaring Twenties
A decade of economic boom and stock market speculation from 1920 to 1929. The Dow rose from 63 in 19...
1937 Recession
A sharp economic downturn during the Great Depression, caused by premature fiscal tightening. Presid...
Gold Standard Act 1900
The Gold Standard Act formally placed the United States on the gold standard, fixing the dollar at 2...
1929 London Crash
The London Stock Exchange crashed in September 1929, two months before Wall Street. The crash was tr...
Weimar Hyperinflation
In 1923, Germany experienced devastating hyperinflation. The mark fell from 4.2 per dollar in 1914 t...
Glass-Steagall Act
The Banking Act of 1933, known as Glass-Steagall, separated commercial banking from investment banki...
SEC Founded
The Securities and Exchange Commission was created by the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 in respons...
Commodities Act
The Commodity Exchange Act of 1936 regulated futures and options trading in the United States. It wa...
Coca-Cola IPO
Coca-Cola went public in 1919 at 40 per share. The stock dropped to 19 within a year due to sugar pr...
1920s Florida Land Speculation
The Florida land boom of the 1920s was one of the first modern real estate bubbles. Promoters sold u...
Knickerbocker Trust
The Knickerbocker Trust Company was the third largest trust company in New York. Its collapse in Oct...
Creditanstalt Collapse
The collapse of Creditanstalt, Austrias largest bank, in May 311 triggered a European banking crisis...
Bank of United States Failure
The Bank of United States failed on December 11, 1930, one of the largest bank failures in American ...
Demarking of Wall Street
The Pecora Commission, led by Ferdinand Pecora, investigated Wall Street practices after the 1929 cr...
Benjamin Graham Value Investing
Benjamin Graham published Security Analysis in 1934, laying the foundation for value investing. Grah...
Federal Reserve Act
The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 created the central bank of the United States after a century withou...