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 III · Modern Money
Modern Money
- 1902Warburg
The Mildest-Mannered Revolutionary
1902–1918
A courtly émigré thought American banking was medieval — so he redesigned it in secret on Jekyll Island. Paul Warburg and the making of the Federal Reserve.
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Medici Money in a Modern Country
1798–1895
Four centuries turning a small town's name into a byword for money and mind — and the 1895 double wedding that wired Hamburg straight into Wall Street.
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The Fire and the Afterlife
1919–2026
The same century that let one Warburg build America's central bank saw the family bank stolen and the name turned into a lie — and left a question we still haven't answered.
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