Market Memoir

Hugh Hefner rings the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange on April 13, 1999. Hefner took Playboy public in 1971 at $23.50 per share, and bought it back in 2011 in a $210 million buyout. #wallstreet #financehistory #finance #investing #hefner #playboy

Steve Jobs in front of the Palo Alto garage where it all began. It was here that Steve Wozniak built the very first Apple Computer I in 1976, leading to an order for 50 more and putting Apple on the long and winding path to becoming the world’s most valuable technology company.

The blackboard of the New York Gold Room, showing the rapid deterioration of gold prices on September 24, 1869 in what became know as America's first Black Friday. #wallstreet #financehistory #finance #investing #blackfriday

American Airlines ad from 1991 featuring the busy Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) when human intuition, mental math, and gut feelings ruled the floor. #wallstreet #financehistory #finance #investing #americanairlines #CME

Lehman CEO Dick Fuld in Bloomberg BusinessWeek in July 2001. #wallstreet #financehistory #finance #investing #lehman

First publicly traded company and the birth of the modern corporation. A Dutch East India Company debt certificate issued in 1623 to raise funds for the Company’s spice trade that occupied a million Europeans across 4,785 ships.

Enron trading floor in August 2000, a year before the energy giant collapsed in one of the biggest cases of corporate fraud in modern time.