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    A History of the United States in Five Crashes: Stock Market Meltdowns That Defined a Nation
    A History of the United States in Five Crashes: Stock Market Meltdowns That Defined a Nation
    A History of the United States in Five Crashes: Stock Market Meltdowns That Defined a Nation
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    A History of the United States in Five Crashes: Stock Market Meltdowns That Defined a Nation

    Written by Scott Nations

    Narrated by Christopher Grove

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    In this absorbing, smart, and accessible blend of economic and cultural history in the vein of the works of Michael Lewis and Andrew Ross Sorkin, a financial executive and CNBC contributor examines the five most significant stock market crashes in the United States over the past century, revealing how they have defined the nation today.

    THE PANIC OF 1907; BLACK TUESDAY (1929); BLACK MONDAY (1987); THE GREAT RECESSION (2008); THE FLASH CRASH (2010): Each of these financial implosions that caused a catastrophic drop in the American stock market is a remarkable story in its own right. But taken together, they offer a unique financial history of the American century. In A History of the United States in Five Crashes, financial executive and CNBC contributor Scott Nations examines these precipitous dips, revealing how each played a role in America’s political and cultural fabric, one building upon the next to create the nation we know today.

    Scott Nations identifies the factors behind the disastrous runs on banks that led to the Panic of 1907, the first great scare of the twentieth century. He explains why 1920s America adopted investment trusts—a practice that helped post—World War I Britain—and how they were a primary catalyst of the 1929 crash. He explores America’s love affair with an expanding stock market in the 1980s—which spawned the birth of portfolio insurance that significantly contributed to the 1987 crash. And he examines the factors that led to the 2008 global meltdown, and the rise of algorithmic trading, the modern financial technology that sparked the 2010 Flash Crash when American stocks lost a trillion dollars in minutes.

    A History of the United States in Five Crashes clearly and compellingly illustrates the connections between these financial collapses and examines the solid, clear-cut lessons they offer for preventing the next one.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateJun 13, 2017
    ISBN9780062677068
    Author

    Scott Nations

    Scott Nations is the president of NationsShares, a financial engineering firm. He is a regular contributor to CNBC, where he frequently appears on-air to discuss markets, derivatives, and other investment topics. He is the author of two technical books for option traders, Options Math for Traders and The Complete Book of Option Spreads and Combinations. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.

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    • 5/5
      It is a great read if you are looking to start trading and investing in stocks.

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    • 5/5
      This book is a reminder that ‘history rhymes.’ Though every financial crisis is different yet similar in some ways… we often get carried away with current situations not realizing similar have happened in the past. This book is a great review of the past financial crisis for anyone interested in history and investing.
    • 5/5
      The author creates fantastic postmortem of each examined crash. He does this by weaving the events preceding the crash into a story of the political, social, financial and human elements at play. A great read for any history buff.
    • 5/5
      Fantastic! Very detailed, and yet not so detailed that you get lost in the numbers. Very interesting book to reflect on, especially during this Summer 2021.
    • 5/5
      If the reader is interested in understanding the details behind the commonalities across some of the major financial American crisis, this book serve the purpose.
    • 3/5
      Involves a lot of unimportant stories. If you are listening for strictly financial information and not personal stories than this is not the book for you
    • 3/5
      Well narrated and provided some new insight into 5 well documented stock market crashes.