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Civil War Gold Hoax
Type: Stockmarket Hoax. Summary: A plot to manipulate the price of gold during the American Civil War. Joseph Howard, city editor of the Brooklyn Eagle. (Image from Harper’s Weekly, June 4, 1864.)It was May, 1864. Grant was closing in on Lee in Virginia. New Yorkers were growing hopeful that the…


Emulex Stockmarket Hoax
A US Attorney announces the arrest of Mark Jakob at a press conference held on August 31, 2000. Behind him, a chart shows the downward spike that the hoax caused in the stock price of Emulex. On August 25 2000, shareholders of Emulex Corp. were greeted in the morning by…


Stock Exchange Hoax of 1814
Lord Cochrane, possible stock manipulatorThe Napoleonic wars were a long and trying experience for the British. Therefore, when on February 21, 1814 a man wearing the uniform of a British military officer showed up at an inn on the coast of the English Channel announcing that the war was over,…

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