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Financial History: Sunday Reads

• IPO Pricing: The Very Long Run

• Private Origins of Private Companies

• Why Go Public?

• Five Eras of Financial Markets

• Financial Innovation & Market Access

• Private Capital & Public Credit: Railways

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"Proportion held, in aggregate, by the Harvard, Princeton, and Yale endowments..."

(1900 - 2013)
Two awesome charts from some of today's papers:
Which one stands out to you the most?
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I'll be honest that this was not intentional (I just love the image) but...

Using this 2 panel visual for an article on "Public vs. Private Markets" worked out beautifully haha
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Financial History: Sunday Reads

• Electric Vehicles: A 19th Century Innovation

• Tech Revolutions: Bicycle Mania

• Sketchy Startups & The South Sea Bubble

• The Birth of Electric Cars

• The 17th Century Tech Bubble

investoramnesia.com/2020/08/09/spe…
This made my week.

The Reddit post in the second picture is a *perfect* example of the speculative pattern I discuss in today's Sunday Reads...

And as a writer, there is nothing more satisfying than knowing your work resonated with someone.
Some "new" innovations that are actually a century old:

• Electric Taxi Cab Fleets in NYC (1897)

• Electric Trucks (1899)
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Financial History: Sunday Reads

• A Short History of Tontines

• The Allure of Public Markets

• SPACs in the South Sea Bubble?

• The Birth of Investment Trusts

• Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction

investoramnesia.com/2020/07/26/fin…
Today's Sunday Reads covers the general history of financial contraptions, but specifically SPACs and Tontines.

I answer questions like why did Bill Ackman name his SPAC after a 17th century financial contraption described as:

"Part annuity, part mortality lottery"
Tontines are crucial to American history.

After signing the Buttonwood Agreement, the brokers needed a place to conduct business, and settled on a coffee shop.

A tontine financed construction of the "The Tontine Coffee House", which later evolved into the NYSE.
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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:

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A look at market crashes and further research on the history of Pandemics:

investoramnesia.com/2020/03/29/pan…
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