Movement
14 entries
Enclosure Acts Bubble
A period of intense land speculation during the Parliamentary Enclosure Acts from 1750 to 1860. Comm...
Gilded Age Speculation
A period of rampant speculation and corruption in post Civil War America. Railroad magnates like Jay...
Roaring Twenties
A decade of economic boom and stock market speculation from 1920 to 1929. The Dow rose from 63 in 19...
AI Stock Boom
A massive rally in artificial intelligence stocks starting in 2023. Nvidia, the leading AI chip make...
Meme Stock Era
A phenomenon starting in January 2021 where retail investors coordinated on Reddit and social media ...
Bimetallism Debate
A political debate in the late 19th century United States over whether to back the dollar with both ...
1980s Leveraged Buyouts
The 1980s saw a wave of leveraged buyouts, where investors used borrowed money to acquire companies....
Obama Stock Market
The stock market recovery during the Obama presidency from March 2009 to January 2017 was one of the...
Trump Stock Market
During the Trump presidency from January 2017 to January 2021, the S&P 500 rose from 2,277 to 3,851,...
Biden Stock Market
During the Biden presidency starting January 2021, the S&P 500 initially continued rising, reaching ...
Nifty Fifty
The Nifty Fifty were a group of large cap growth stocks on the NYSE in the 1960s and early 1970s tha...
Quants Revolution
The quantitative investing revolution transformed finance starting in the 2000s. Mathematical models...
ESG Investing
ESG investing, considering environmental, social, and governance factors, grew from a niche to over ...
Chinese Ghost Cities
During Chinas property boom, developers built entire cities that sat empty. Ordos in Inner Mongolia ...