The History of the Stock Market Podcast

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.