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Quick Super Thread on what I've been covering at Investor Amnesia during COVID-19.

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The first dive into Pandemics and Financial Markets:

investoramnesia.com/2020/03/01/pan…
A look at market crashes and further research on the history of Pandemics:

investoramnesia.com/2020/03/29/pan…
Historical context on how to invest through a crisis:

investoramnesia.com/2020/04/05/inv…
A look at market crashes through the lens of policy and knock-on effects:

investoramnesia.com/2020/04/12/cra…
What is a Minsky Moment, and is COVID-19 the most recent example?

A historical deep-dive on Minsky Moments:

investoramnesia.com/2020/04/19/a-m…
COVID-19 causes oil prices to go negative.

What is the historical context for this?

investoramnesia.com/2020/04/26/oil…
Another in-depth look at financial markets and Pandemics, featuring new papers on how they affect housing markets, etc.

investoramnesia.com/2020/05/16/pan…
Speculation is booming in recent months. Whether it be David Portnoy or the Robinhood Army...

What causes these speculative booms?

investoramnesia.com/2020/05/02/spe…
A look at some of our nation's darkest moments, but also the perseverance and success of the too-often ignored minority business community:

investoramnesia.com/2020/06/06/rac…
The role of media in reporting / fueling bubbles, and more:

investoramnesia.com/2020/05/30/new…
Following the Wirecard scandal, this post offers a *deep* dive on the history of fraud, short sellers, and media.

investoramnesia.com/2020/06/28/fra…
Finally, I conclude with last weekend's post on a major knock-on effect of COVID-19:

Bankruptcies.

investoramnesia.com/2020/07/12/ban…
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Wow. This article from 1896 sounds familiar.

A slight raise in rates by the Bank of England spooked investors that had grown accustomed to 'cheap money'.

Make sure to read this thread. Fascinating stuff.
"Such a system works comfortably and profitably enough as long as the 'cheap money,' which is at once its basis and its effect, continues."
Cheap Money (1896)

"Speculators [got] an effective warning that they could not count on the reality of their dream of perpetual cheap money...

And amply proved that the dangers to which a long period of abundant credit had been said to expose... markets simply shriveled up"
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FASCINATING article from the Spectator in 1890.

Robinhood traders:
Sound familiar? Increased retail speculation caused by:

• "A fall in the rate of interest, which tempts men otherwise averse from risk to improve their incomes"

• "The very decided increase in the habit of betting, which extends itself to everything"
What is the kind of speculator that succeeds?
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COVID-19 and Spanish Influenza similarities in terms of the American experience, the dominant narratives, and random anecdotes.

Some of these could *literally* be swapped out for stories today.

Others offer ideas on how things might unfold.
October 1918 -> March 2020
October 1918 -> May 13, 2020
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