I'd like to highlight this post from the Washington Post on the 1987 crash.
Tuesday, October 20, 1987; Page A01 (Washington Post)
The stock market was devastated by the worst one-day collapse in history yesterday in a pandemonium of panic selling that shattered all records and swamped stock exchanges around the country and overseas.
The best-known market barometer -- the Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks -- plummeted 508 points, five times the previous record set last Friday. The Dow closed at 1738, dropping 22.6 percent, or nearly double the 12.8 percent plunge of Oct. 29, 1929, the crash that began the Great Depression.
Does a stock market crash cause a depression or add trouble an already weak economy?
Tomorrow is the day. Hope for the Best, Expect the Worst.
Friday, October 03, 2008
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suggest watching crash of 87 videos-
especially wall street week -
so much is the same-
http://www.youtube.com/user/crashof1987
watch this instead:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOITEBQ-0aw
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