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Financial history The magazine of the Museum of American Finance in association with the Smithsonian Institution Issue 133 • Spring 2020 (ISSN 1520-4723) Kristin Aguilera IN THIS ISSUE FEATURES 10 Coronavirus and Economic Nationalism Will coronavirus and economic nationalism reverse two centuries of globalization?   By Simon Constable Editor EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Howard A. Baker, Esq. Howard Baker Associates Lawrence A. Cunningham The George Washington University Brian Grinder Eastern Washington University 15 Dirty Water In 1799, Aaron Burr founded The Manhattan Company to provide fresh water to New York City amidst a widespread yellow fever epidemic. That company has since evolved into America’s largest bank.   By Maura Ferguson and Sarah Poole Gregory DL Morris Freelance Journalist Susie Pak St. John’s University Arthur W. Samansky The Samansky Group Myles Thompson Columbia Business School Publishing Janice Traflet 20 Pandemics and Epidemics The financial and economic effects of more than two centuries of pandemics.   By Richard Sylla, Janice Traflet and Robert E. Wright Bucknell University Robert E. Wright Augustana University Jason Zweig The Wall Street Journal 25 Roger F. Murray The bridge between Benjamin Graham and modern value investing.   By James R. Kelly ART DIRECTION Alan Barnett Design MUSEUM STAFF David J. Cowen, President/CEO Kristin Aguilera, Deputy Director Maura Ferguson, Director of Exhibits Sarah Poole, Collections Manager Linda Rapacki, Managing Director of Visitor Services and Operations Mindy Ross, Director, External Relations Copyright © 2020 by the Museum of American Finance, publisher, 25 Broadway, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10004. Telephone: 212-908-4110. All rights reserved. Financial History is the official membership magazine of the Museum of American Finance. 28 The Importance of Oil in World War II It may be an overstatement to assert that World War II was all about oil. But the historical record suggests that concerns about supplying oil to mobile military forces on land, on the sea and in the air weighed heavy on the minds of senior leaders of the war’s major combatants.   By Michael A. Martorelli 32 Centennial of Southwestern Oil & Gas Recalls Epic Bank Failures Roughnecks of the Permian Basin have ridden many boom and bust cycles. Some regional banks, that should have known better, have succumbed.   By Gregory DL Morris 36 Where Are They Now? The Museum’s series on 207 of the underwriters of the 1956 Ford IPO continues with the history of E.F. Hutton & Co. (founded in New York in 1904).   By Susie J. Pak 2    FINANCIAL HISTORY  |  Spring 2020  | www.MoAF.org