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The History of the Stock Market Podcast episodes
- HKEX Evolution: From Colonial Clearing House to Global Market Powerhouse
Explore how Hong Kong’s stock exchange grew from a modest colonial clearing house in 1891 into a modern global market hub, tracing regulatory reforms, electronic trading adoption, and the Asian financial crisis. The episode examines HKEX’s balancing act of openness versus control and its embrace of blockchain to shape today’s capital flows.
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17 min - The New York Clearing House: First Lender of Last Resort
This episode traces the birth of the New York Clearing House in 1853, its role as the first lender of last resort during panics, and how its practices foreshadowed modern central banking. We also follow the ripple effects—from the Whitney scandal to early Wall Street speculators—that reshaped market regulation and institutional trust.
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17 min - Regulation NMS: How the National Best Bid and Offer Standard Reshaped Modern Trading
This episode traces the 2005 SEC rule that codified the national best bid and offer (NBBO), forcing traders, brokers, and tech firms to rethink order routing. We explore how Reg NMS altered market structure, accelerated the rise of electronic communication networks, and set the stage for high‑frequency trading and subsequent regulatory reforms.
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18 min - From Hog‑Price Cycles to AI Candlesticks: The Evolution of Technical Analysis
This episode traces the roots of technical analysis from Samuel Benner’s 19th‑century hog‑price charts through Charles Dow’s theory, to today’s algorithmic and machine‑learning tools. We explore how market participants have used price patterns to read sentiment, drive trading strategies, and shape regulation over time.
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About The History of the Stock Market Podcast
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Explore the dramatic, innovative, and often turbulent history of the stock market. The History of the Stock Market Podcast traces the exchanges, investors, companies, financial institutions, technologies, bubbles, crashes, and economic forces that transformed stock trading from informal deals between merchants into the enormous global financial system of today.
Episodes journey from the earliest joint-stock companies and the Amsterdam Stock Exchange through the rise of Wall Street, the New York Stock Exchange, famous market panics, the Great Crash of 1929, the Great Depression, postwar bull markets, the NASDAQ revolution, Black Monday, the dot-com bubble, the 2008 financial crisis, meme stocks, algorithmic trading, and the evolution of modern investing. The show also explores legendary investors, major corporations, financial scandals, regulation, short selling, market speculation, index funds, brokerage firms, trading technology, and the psychology behind booms and crashes.
Whether you are fascinated by Wall Street, investing, financial history, market crashes, legendary traders, economic bubbles, or the forces that have shaped modern capitalism, the podcast tells the stories behind the people, institutions, innovations, and defining moments that built the stock market. The History of the Stock Market Podcast is hosted by Josh Linsk.