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Financial Alchemy: How to Create Trash Into Gold - History of Finance V
It's fitting that Don Quixote, the crazy knight who fought windmills, was the first to say that one shouldn't put all of one's eggs in one basket.
It sometimes takes a madman to realize that there is great risk in continuing to do things as we have been doing. In this article, we will be exploring how investors started trying to protect themselves from the evolving complexity and crashes of the first modern financial markets. This was done through securitization, by pooling their assets together and creating financial instruments that represented a whole variety of projects and thereby offsetting the risk of any single component.
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The Age of Projecting: What the Early Stock Market Teaches Us About Crypto — History of Finance IV
If there is something that we can learn from history, it’s that people do not learn from history. The sentiment is so oft repeated that it borders on cliché — but, like figure skaters, we cross and criss-cross the same lines, over and over, until the grooves are well imprinted.
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Taming Randomness: How Modern Finance Evolved From Gambling — History of Finance III
John Maynard Keynes, one of the grandfathers of modern economics, once said that the business of investing is intolerably boring and over-exacting to anyone who is entirely exempt from the gambling instinct.
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Why Accountants Rule the World — The History of Finance II
One of the core features of blockchain technology is immutability. Every transaction, no matter how irrelevant or unimportant, is permanently logged on the blockchain.
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The Evolution of Money — History of Finance I
Axo is pioneering the transition to a fair financial system for everyone — but if we are to understand where we’re going, we must also understand where we came from.
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History of Finance Compilation
The complete collection of The History of Finance series.