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[jackchristopher]

Thank goodness we have computers to track this stuff.

I wonder how long it took to see the sell-offs before the subsequent collapse in the 30s?

EDIT: I didn't mean to imply that we're near a depression. I was think about how technology helped us. Thanks makaimc.

[makaimc → jackchristopher]

I just read about this over the weekend in John Kenneth Galbraith's book The Great Crash. The ticker tape machines were about 3 hours behind in most parts of the country and that caused a massive sell-off as people tried to get out of the market even though they did not know the current value of their stocks.

[rrival → makaimc]

Have you found anything similar that talks about Japan in the early 90s or argentina's collapses? I'm trying to find good parallel examples,