HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT FINANCIAL HISTORY ?

1 . Which one of the founding fathers of value investing lived to be 109 years old ?

2 . What Civil War-era Secretary of the Treasury is featured on the $ 10,000 bill ?

3 . At J . P . Morgan ’ s funeral , who purportedly remarked that , “ He owned all of us and he wasn ’ t even that rich .”

4 . What Gilded Age financier , born in Frankfort , Germany , was only formally educated until the age of 14 ?

5 . In what century did the first major financial bubble occur ?

6 . In what year were “ greenbacks ” first issued ?

7 . The “ dot-com ” bubble began in 1995 . In what year did it end ?

8 . What American economist infamously predicted that stock prices had reached “ a permanently high plateau ” shortly before the Crash of 1929 ?

9 . What stock exchange filed a proposal with the SEC in 2020 to include board diversity requirements for new listings ?

10 . What was the original name of the

American Stock Exchange ?

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