The commission set out to discover what had led to the stock market crash in 1929.
Many may have lost a significant portion of their savings in the stock market crash of 2008.
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The prospect of a sweeping trade-protection bill in the fall of 1929 triggered the stock market crash.
Denny Sanford, 75, fell off the 400 richest list in 2010, after the stock market crash.
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Hoping to recover from the stock market crash, Inwentash turned Pinetree's attention in 2003 to gold and uranium.
It is a year since the stock market crash of 2008 and the beginning of the Great Recession.
It was later said to have been a slower disaster than the stock market crash, but almost as devastating.
Alan Greenspan is now at the most critical juncture of his Fed chairmanship since the stock market crash of 1987.
The guys who sold out of the market in 1987 following the stock market crash and vowed never to invest in stocks again.
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It raised fears about this being a repeat of the stock market crash of 1929 and a harbinger of an economic depression to follow.
In particular, Paulson's powwow in December was reminiscent of one of President Herbert Hoover's moves in the fall of 1929, following the stock market crash.
The stock market crash of 1929 did not cause the Depression.
His parents lost everything in the stock market crash of 1929, then became custodians at a Salt Lake apartment complex owned by a wealthy local Mormon family, the Coveys.
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During the following three years, civilian employment increased by nearly 8 million people and the unemployment rate fell to 5.3% from 7.0% as the economy easily absorbed the stock market crash of 1987.
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On the other hand, research by Yale University Professor Robert Shiller, widely credited with predicting both the stock market crash of 2000 and the housing bust, has shown that momentum in home prices has staying power.
And wherever he landed in California that day, it was as though the country hadn't known the stock market crash and the miseries of the Depression (or the triumphs of FDR, for that matter), as though even the war he was there to prevent us from entering hadn't so much as crossed anyone's mind.
Eighty years ago this fall the 1929 stock market crash raised the curtain on the Great Depression.
Born in New York City a few months after the 1929 stock market crash sent the world spiraling into the Great Depression, Dr. Schlesinger has witnessed many of the most momentous events of the past century - and played a central role in many of them.
Today is the 25th anniversary of the 1987 stock market crash that saw the worst ever one-day percentage decline on Wall Street.
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Many will remember the awful feeling in the last recession, in the early 1990s - or the 1987 stock market crash, or the British property bubble - where you know nothing fundamental has changed - but people who spent freely before, took chances before, stop doing all those things, and everything slows down, share prices fall - confidence ebbs away.
Perhaps a devastating flight from the dollar--the kind that precipitated the 1987 stock market crash--is needed to shake the White House out of its damaging weak-dollar rut.
The project began to lose speed with the 1929 stock market crash on Wall Street, which reverberated throughout the Western world and took away Kahn's fortune.
Over the past year I have said many times that I expect the stock market to crash at some point in time, the only question is when.
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Investigations after the 1929 stock market crash revealed widespread conflicts of interest and outright fraud in the activities of financial firms leading up to the Great Crash.
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Shell-shocked by the 2008 stock market crash, many investors are more risk-averse than they should be.
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This is higher than during the burst of the Internet bubble or the 1987 stock market crash.
As he was pondering his options, the October stock market crash came.
To cite one extreme case, it took the Dow Jones Industrial Average 25 years to regain the heights achieved just before the 1929 stock market crash.
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His family lost their savings in the stock-market crash of 1929 and Mr. Holding remained reluctant to take on debt, even as his business empire blossomed.
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