Best Of: Why VC funding is drying up

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When money went rogue: banking in 19th-century frontier America

In 19th-century America almost anyone could print their own money – and many did. One of the most notable figures to take this up was a man named James Brown, a charismatic conman who built a fortune producing fake banknotes. In this episode of The Story of Money, Stephen Mihm, a ...  Show more

Hitting the Buffers: The 1873 railway bust that broke one of America’s greatest financiers

Every now and then a new technology comes along that changes everything – electricity, computers, potentially AI. In mid-19th-century America, that technology was the steam locomotive. It knitted the US economy together, driving the nation’s industrialisation during the Gilded Ag ...  Show more

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