Two Men Nearly Crashed Wall Street in 1907 — And No One Stopped Them

Описание: 00:00 A Calm Morning — Then the Doors Were Locked
01:05 The Panic of 1907 Begins
01:32 Two Men Who Thought They Could Outsmart the Market
02:05 America’s Fragile Financial System
02:38 The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Shock
03:10 Gold Drain, Tight Credit, Rising Pressure
03:40 Heinze, Morse, and the United Copper Scheme
04:22 Trust Companies and the Knickerbocker Connection
04:55 The Scheme Collapses
05:20 Bank Runs and the Knickerbocker Shutdown
05:55 Panic Spreads Across the Financial System
06:25 Fear, Hoarding Cash, and a Frozen Economy
07:05 New York Paralyzed
07:28 No Central Bank, No Safety Net
07:50 J. P. Morgan Steps In
08:20 Locked Doors and Forced Decisions
08:55 Private Rescues and Market Support
09:20 Why Knickerbocker Was Allowed to Fail
09:45 The Human Cost and the Birth of the Fed
10:15 From 1907 to 2008 — The Pattern Repeats
10:35 History Rhymes
In 1907, two reckless men pushed Wall Street to the edge of collapse.

What began as a failed stock manipulation spiraled into a full-blown financial panic that exposed how fragile the American financial system really was.

Banks failed.
Credit froze.
Confidence vanished.

With no central bank and no safety net, the system depended on one thing alone: trust.

This video tells the story of the Panic of 1907 — how it started, how it spread, and why its lessons still matter today. From Augustus Heinze and Charles Morse, to J.P. Morgan’s extraordinary intervention, and the decisions that shaped modern finance.

More than a century later, the same patterns would appear again in 2008.

Different institutions.
Different instruments.
The same underlying flaws.

If you want to understand how financial power, panic, and unchecked ambition can threaten entire economies, this story matters.

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