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A detailed guide to financial market performance during financial crises

With the financial markets seemingly careening from one crisis to another, it''s vital for today's investors and traders to have an historical perspective on market performance during times of great turmoil. In this book, Tim Knight provides an exhaustive analysis of financial market behavior prior, during, and following tumultuous events since 1600.

Making copious use of charts and basic technical analysis, Knight demonstrates how external shocks tend to create extreme reactions in the financial markets and how these predictable reactions provide opportunities for investors and traders to profit. Knight traverses five centuries of financial market history, from Tulipmania in the 1600s to the contemporary sovereign debt crisis. He looks at each event from the prism of the financial markets, examining the market climate prior to the event, during the event, and following the event.

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    Table of Contents

    Preface ix

    Chapter 1 Tulip Madness 1

    Chapter 2 The Mississippi Scheme 9

    Chapter 3 The South Sea Bubble 29

    Chapter 4 American Revolution in the Colonies 37

    Chapter 5 The Panic of 1837 49

    Chapter 6 California Gold 63

    Chapter 7 The American Civil War 75

    Chapter 8 The Panic of 1893 97

    Chapter 9 The Rich Man’s Panic of 1907 113

    Chapter 10 Billion-Dollar Bread—The Weimar Hyperinflation 131

    Chapter 11 The Roaring Twenties 145

    Chapter 12 The Great Depression 157

    Chapter 13 Postwar Prosperity 189

    Chapter 14 Energy, Politics, and War 199

    Chapter 15 Precious Metals and the Destruction of a Billionaire 219

    Chapter 16 Latin American Debt Crisis 245

    Chapter 17 The Reagan Revolution and Crash 255

    Chapter 18 The Rising and Setting Sun of Japan 269

    Chapter 19 The Savings and Loan Debacle 295

    Chapter 20 Fall of the Soviet Union 309

    Chapter 21 The Asian Contagion 321

    Chapter 22 Russian Crisis of 1998 339

    Chapter 23 Captured by the Net 353

    Chapter 24 The Great Recession 415

    Chapter 25 History in the Making 443

    About the Author 449

    Index 451

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      Publisher: Wiley
      Publication Date: 08/04/2014
      ISBN13: 9781118684320, 978-1118684320
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A detailed guide to financial market performance during financial crises

      With the financial markets seemingly careening from one crisis to another, it''s vital for today's investors and traders to have an historical perspective on market performance during times of great turmoil. In this book, Tim Knight provides an exhaustive analysis of financial market behavior prior, during, and following tumultuous events since 1600.

      Making copious use of charts and basic technical analysis, Knight demonstrates how external shocks tend to create extreme reactions in the financial markets and how these predictable reactions provide opportunities for investors and traders to profit. Knight traverses five centuries of financial market history, from Tulipmania in the 1600s to the contemporary sovereign debt crisis. He looks at each event from the prism of the financial markets, examining the market climate prior to the event, during the event, and following the event.

      • Dr

        Table of Contents

        Preface ix

        Chapter 1 Tulip Madness 1

        Chapter 2 The Mississippi Scheme 9

        Chapter 3 The South Sea Bubble 29

        Chapter 4 American Revolution in the Colonies 37

        Chapter 5 The Panic of 1837 49

        Chapter 6 California Gold 63

        Chapter 7 The American Civil War 75

        Chapter 8 The Panic of 1893 97

        Chapter 9 The Rich Man’s Panic of 1907 113

        Chapter 10 Billion-Dollar Bread—The Weimar Hyperinflation 131

        Chapter 11 The Roaring Twenties 145

        Chapter 12 The Great Depression 157

        Chapter 13 Postwar Prosperity 189

        Chapter 14 Energy, Politics, and War 199

        Chapter 15 Precious Metals and the Destruction of a Billionaire 219

        Chapter 16 Latin American Debt Crisis 245

        Chapter 17 The Reagan Revolution and Crash 255

        Chapter 18 The Rising and Setting Sun of Japan 269

        Chapter 19 The Savings and Loan Debacle 295

        Chapter 20 Fall of the Soviet Union 309

        Chapter 21 The Asian Contagion 321

        Chapter 22 Russian Crisis of 1998 339

        Chapter 23 Captured by the Net 353

        Chapter 24 The Great Recession 415

        Chapter 25 History in the Making 443

        About the Author 449

        Index 451

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