Timelines tagged “finance”
5 timelines
- Central Banking
Central banks and their changing responsibilities, from Sweden's Riksbank in 1668 through monetary independence, inflation targeting, asset purchases, and Japan's policy shift in 2024.
- Financial Crises
Major financial crises worldwide, from the Dutch tulip collapse of 1637 and the bubbles of 1720 through banking panics and debt and currency crises to the 2008 financial crisis and the bank failures of 2023.
- John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes's life, 1883–1946, from Cambridge and Indian currency to the General Theory, wartime finance, and the design of the postwar monetary system.
- Money
Money from weighed silver and cowrie shells through the first coins, Chinese paper money, the gold standard and fiat currency to mobile money, bitcoin and stablecoin law, from about 2100 BCE to 2025.
- Venture Capital
Venture capital from the agent-financed whaling voyages of 19th-century New England and the American Research and Development Corporation of 1946 through Silicon Valley, the dot-com bust and startup accelerators to the AI funding surge of 2025 – 2026.