How The World Almost Came To An End At 2PM On September 18

Re:How The World Almost Came To An End At 2PM On September 18 by makaimc on Tuesday February 10, 2009 @02:57PM (#475807)

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.

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Re:How The World Almost Came To An End At 2PM On September 18 by rrival on Tuesday February 10, 2009 @03:49PM (#475926)

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,

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