Updated second edition explores the history of Wall Street and examines the major events in finance and government that changed the way securities were created and traded. Discusses the early years, 1790–1840; the railroad and Civil War eras, 1840–70; the robber barons, 1870–90; the age of the trusts, 1880–1910; the money trust, 1890–1920; the booming twenties, 1920–29; Wall Street meets the New Deal, 1930–35; the struggle continues, 1936–54; the bull market, 1954–69; the bear market, 1970–81; mergermania, 1982–97; running out of steam, 1998–2003; the cataclysm, 2004–08; and the Great Recession, 2009–the present. Geisst is Ambassador Charles A. Gargano Professor of Finance at Manhattan College.