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- Black Monday 1987: the 22.6% crash and why circuit breakers exist What happened on October 19, 1987, how portfolio insurance and broken market links deepened the fall, how the Fed responded, and how circuit breakers followed.
- Dow theory: the six tenets and confirmation by the transports Where Dow theory came from, its six tenets explained plainly, how the industrials and transports confirm each other, and what DIA and IYT showed from 2024 to 2026.
- History of stock market crashes: every major US drawdown compared The major US stock market crashes and bear markets from 1929 to 2022 in one table: peak, trough, decline and time to recover, with what caused each and what they share.
- Meme stock mania of 2021: GameStop, AMC and the SEC report What drove GameStop and AMC in January 2021, why brokers restricted buying, what the SEC staff report of October 2021 found, and what changed after.
- The 2008 financial crisis: housing, Lehman, TARP and the 57% fall How the US housing bust became a global banking crisis, what happened around Lehman’s failure, how TARP and the Fed responded, and how the S&P 500 fell 57% in 2007–09.
- The 2010 Flash Crash: what happened on May 6 and what changed How US stocks fell about 9% and rebounded within minutes on May 6, 2010, what the SEC–CFTC staff report found, and how LULD bands and new circuit breakers followed.
- The 2022 bear market: inflation, Fed hikes and falling bonds Why stocks and bonds fell together in 2022, how the Fed’s fastest hikes in decades drove a 25% S&P 500 decline, and what SPY, QQQ and TLT data show.
- The COVID crash of 2020: the fastest bear market and recovery How the S&P 500 fell 34% in 33 days in February–March 2020, the four circuit-breaker halts, the Fed and CARES Act response, and the record set by August 2020.
- The crash of 1929: causes, the 1929–32 decline and lessons What happened in the October 1929 crash, how the Dow fell 89% by July 1932, why policy made it worse, and the market rules the 1930s left behind.
- The dot-com bubble: the 1995–2002 boom and the 78% Nasdaq fall How the internet stock boom of 1995–2000 built up, why the Nasdaq fell 78% by October 2002, what QQQ’s real monthly history shows, and the lessons for valuation.
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