Financial History Issue 131 (Fall 2019) | Page 4

Financial
history
The magazine of the
Museum of American Finance
in association with
the Smithsonian Institution
Issue 131 • Fall 2019
(ISSN 1520-4723)
Kristin Aguilera
IN THIS ISSUE
FEATURES
11 From Crash to Scrip
The stock market collapse of 1929
and the rise of fake money.
  By Ralph Blumenthal
Editor
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
Howard A. Baker, Esq.
Howard Baker Associates
Lawrence A. Cunningham
The George Washington University
Brian Grinder
15 An Entrepreneur’s Beginning
The origins of TD Ameritrade and the value of free enterprise.
  By Joe Ricketts
Eastern Washington University
Bradley Jones
Reserve Bank of Australia
Gregory DL Morris
Freelance Journalist
Susie Pak
St. John’s University
Arthur W. Samansky
The Samansky Group
18 US Presidents and the Federal Reserve
The complicated historical relationship between
the Commander-In-Chief and the US central bank.
  By Peter C. Earle
Myles Thompson
Columbia Business School Publishing
Janice Traflet
Bucknell University
Robert E. Wright
Augustana University
Jason Zweig
The Wall Street Journal
ART DIRECTION
Alan Barnett Design
22 Ohio Life Insurance
and Trust Company
How oversight and fraud
contributed to the Panic of 1857.
  By Ramon Vasconcellos
MUSEUM STAFF
David J. Cowen, President/CEO
Kristin Aguilera, Deputy Director
Maura Ferguson, Director of Exhibits
Sarah Poole, Collections Manager
Linda Rapacki, Managing Director
of Visitor Services and Operations
Mindy Ross, Director, External Relations
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Financial History is the official membership
magazine of the Museum of American Finance.
26 Revisiting Keynes’
Economic Consequences
Analyzing the accuracy of John Maynard Keynes’ The Economic
Consequences of the Peace on the centennial anniversary of its publication.
  By Michael A. Martorelli
30 Where Are They Now?
The Museum’s series on 207 of the underwriters
of the 1956 Ford IPO continues with the history of
The First Boston Corporation (founded in Boston in 1934).
  By Susie J. Pak
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