Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.

If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals.

A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a long bull market.

After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories.

Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker.

A romantic striving for an impossible ideal.

Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.