@oddletters
Sorry I am dumb. Is finance history the history of banks and stock markets?

@peatbog can be! i have friends who do that. i'm writing a book on the role of high finance in the development of modern venture capital in the US in the 1970s.

@oddletters
Cool beans! Good people need to get on that shit because something fishy.

In school I learned speculators and market manipulators amplified boom-bust cycles until we got the Great Depression when my grandma couldn't toss a scrap of aluminum foil. Then FDR created rules to stabilize money.

Later New Deal roll backs created a jacked investor class and now we swim in pump n dumps and Ponzis and stock values are basically fake.

Carry on!