Panic, Prosperity, and Progress: Five Centuries of History and the Markets

With the financial markets seemingly careening from one crisis to another, its vital for todays investors and traders to have an historical perspective on market performance during times of great turmoil. In Hysteria, Shocks complacency that things will turn out all right; and greed as a particular market goes hyperbolic, like gold in the early 1980s. Knight draws lessons from all this history, providing traders with guidelines to better navigate markets in todays tumultuous times.