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Tomorrow-Fi

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background•intermediate•5 min read•Updated 2023-01-22

Background and Context

To understand generational changes, you need to have a generational perspective. So, let's start from the beginning...

background•intermediate•6 min read•Updated 2022-12-08

Dot Com Bubble

2022 is an incredibly volatile and stressful year, especially in the crypto industry.

background•intermediate•13 min read•Updated 2022-12-08

Mass Communication Technology

In 1994, Jim Clark and Marc Andreessen founded Mosaic Communications and released Netscape, introducing the general public to the internet.

background•intro•7 min read•Updated 2022-12-08

Afghanistan

September 11th, 2001: 19 terrorists hijacked 4 airplanes and flew them into the pillars of American dominance

background•intermediate•4 min read•Updated 2022-12-07

AIG

American International Group (AIG) was founded in 1919 in Shanghai as a generalized insurance agency called American Asiatic Underwriters.

background•intermediate•5 min read•Updated 2022-12-07

Bear Stearns

was founded as an equity trading house on May 1, 1923.

background•intermediate•6 min read•Updated 2022-12-07

Computer

Computers only know how to "think" in numbers and math, while humans think is words and ideas.

background•advanced•4 min read•Updated 2022-12-07

The Federal Reserve System

Before we understand modern central banking, we need to understand how we got here.

background•intermediate•5 min read•Updated 2022-12-07

Global Financial Crisis

At the turn of the 21st century, American-brand capitalism was at its peak.

background•intermediate•19 min read•Updated 2022-12-07

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

Our story begins in 1916 with the creation of the first (GSE), the Farm Credit System.

background•intermediate•6 min read•Updated 2022-12-07

The History of Finance

By definition, history does not begin nor end; everything comes from before, everything leads to something.

background•intermediate•6 min read•Updated 2022-12-07

Lehman Brothers

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.

background•intermediate•7 min read•Updated 2022-12-07

Merrill Lynch

Merrill Lynch, founded in 1914, grew to be the worlds largest securities firm by 1957.

background•intermediate•6 min read•Updated 2022-12-07

The Printing Press

Our story begins in Europe at the dawn of the 16th century.

background•intro•6 min read•Updated 2022-12-07

Sanctions

, when the Athenian Empire banned traders from Megara, strangling the rival city-state’s economy.

background•intermediate•5 min read•Updated 2022-12-07