Sound familiar? The Panic of 1837, America’s worst financial crisis of the 19th century, shares sobering parallels with the financial crash of 2008, says Jessica Lepler, PhD’08. Like the more recent ...

Challenges: Three months into Martin Van Buren’s presidency, the Panic of 1837 engulfed the country in its worst depression to date. Van Buren was largely ineffective at stemming the economic collapse ...

As president, however, Van Buren maintained Jacksonian policies that magnified an economic downturn, leading to the Panic of 1837. "Martin Van Ruin" was not re-elected... Died: July 24 ...

The Warner sisters were originally from New York City and after their father lost the family money in the Panic of 1837, they moved north and settled into farm life on Constitution Island ...

To understand today's financial world, one could do worse than study the panic of 1837. I'll share one of my dad's admonitions which still rings true: "Charlie, economists have solved every ...