Everyone knows about the great crash in 1929, how we first coined the term Black Thursday (Oct 24th), Black Monday (Oct 28), and Black Tuesday (Oct 29)… but did you know that the Dow Jones Industrial Average wouldn’t recover to the 1929 peak until 1954? It took twenty-five years. Given the recent volatility and how …
It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of Costco. I probably make a trip there once a week, whether to get gas or to shop at the warehouse and while I never really fill up a cart, I usually walk out with something good. I like Costco for their staples goods, whether it’s toilet …
Some of the things I already knew, like the AMEX Centurion Card has a $2500 annual fee and a $250,000 annual spend requirement, but others I didn’t, like how American Express started off as a shipping company and later branched out into financial services. I broke the fun facts into these general categories: Historical Nuggets, …
I like reading about history so the first batch of facts revolve around the central bank, starting with the First Bank of the United States and ending with our current Federal Reserve system (you can see the progression!), then wash that meal down with some more entertaining facts like some other firsts, a few mind-boggling …
