Eighty years ago this fall the stock market crashed, which was followed by the Great Depression.
The stock market crashed in 1987, while today we are experiencing a minor drop.
Hong Kong shook the world when its stock market crashed 30% in just seven trading days.
Hank Greenberg was 4 years old when the stock market crashed in 1929 and the Great Depression followed.
The stock market crashed in 1929 when it became clear that Congress was likely to enact devastating, protectionist trade legislation.
Charles Schwab ( SCHW - news - people ) broker when the stock market crashed in October 1987.
Just a few years after the stock market crashed in 1987, murder rates hit historic highs in cities across the country.
In America, still the most generous of nations despite the financial-markets crisis, total giving has risen every year since before the Great Depression, except in 1987 when the stock market crashed.
The company was already 24 years old when the stock market crashed in 1929 and continued to grow, especially after World War II when there was a shortage of formal wear for businessmen.
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In the late 1990s, coincident with the Internet bubble, federal revenues from the progressive income tax, spurred by the enormous realization of capital gains and Wall Street bonuses, grew much faster than GDP, rising briefly above the long-run 18% average to more than 20% before the bubble burst and the stock market crashed in 2001.
By then the stock market had crashed and the mood had soured.
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Following a period of mass speculation, the stock market had crashed in 1929, and the investing world was looking for a better way.
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Readers likely remember that the stock market already crashed in 2007-08, from over 6000 to 1700, and that real estate prices in major cities dropped 20-30% in 2008 after the government took measures reduce liquidity and then the financial crisis hit.
The stock market took them all to atmospheric highs and then it crashed.
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Many a stock fund flew high in the New Era bull market and then crashed.
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