Hustler's Empire · The Archive
A Timeline of Money & Panic
15 episodes across three centuries, ordered by the year each story occurs — not the year it was written. From a beaver pelt on a Manhattan barrel to the fall of the pound, every road runs toward the Panic of 1907.
- The Mercantile World
- The Age of Panics
- Modern Money
- Panic of 1907 · keystone
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Age II · The Age of Panics
The Age of Panics
- 1890House of Morgan
The Man Who Was the Central Bank
1837–1901
Six feet of appetite and certainty. How J.P. Morgan made competition a disease, 'Morganization' the cure, and himself the closest thing America had to a central bank.
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Twenty-Five Million in Ten Minutes
1895 & 1907
Twice the United States nearly went broke; twice it called Pierpont — the 1895 gold rescue, and the night in 1907 he stopped a panic with a card table and a pocketed key.
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The Protocol Changes
1910–1913
The greatest rescue in Wall Street history became the argument for abolishing the world that made it possible — and Morgan's own men drafted the Fed that replaced him.
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