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Роль Дж. П. Моргана в урегулировании биржевой паники 1907 г. в США
Based on analyzes of the materials of the Morgan archive in New York and the Library of Congress in Washington, the article examines issues related to the role of the influential banking tycoon JP Morgan in the origin and settlement of the financial panic that erupted on the US stock exchanges in 1907. In the existing amount of work has paid much attention to the negative side of the influence of the big business on the life of the North American Republic at the turn 20th century. Particular attention is paid to identifying the main mechanisms of the financier's influence on the development of the financial crisis, the issue of public reaction to the possibility of settling the "panic" on the exchange by the efforts of a small group of monopolists is touched upon. Attention is focused on the consideration of the crisis and the great role of JP Morgan in it crisis as one of the most important reasons for the formation of the Federal Reserve System, the third "Central Bank" in US history. The relevance of this topic is connected with the debating of questions about the role of big capital in the modern economy, as well as the author's identification of new archival sources that allowed a new look at the history of the largest stock market panic of the beginning of the 20th century.