200 Years of American Financial Panics: Crashes, Recessions, Depressions, and the Technology that Will Change it All

From 1819 to COVID-19, 200 Years of American Financial Panics offers a comprehensive historical account of financial panics in America. Through a meticulous dissection of historical events and the benefit of his experience handling many of the country’s largest bank failures, Thomas P. Vartanian reveals why so many more devastating financial crises have occurred in America than nearly every other country in the world.

Vartanian provides extensive evidence of how the collision of policy-driv...