Black monday

The stock market could lose 20 percent or more of its value in the next few months. That’s the pronouncement of Swiss investor and market analyst Marc “Dr. Doom” Faber. Faber believes the market looks much as it did in 1987, when it lost 37 percent of its value between August and October. If you’ve ...

Gentlemen‘s Gram on Instagram: "The “Black Monday” stock market crash (October 19, 1987). 📉 Worldwide losses were estimated at $1.71 trillion."

Regulators are planning to crack down on bankers’ bonuses, too.

Wacky, wacky Wall Street.

Wacky, wacky Wall Street.

Our fifth annual “Yesteryear Issue” roams the streets of New York after dark, from the Vanderbilt Ball in 1883 to a Weegee crime scene to George Michael on the dance floor at Sound Factory to an underground rooftop water-tower party last month.

One of the key thoughts about history as an educational discipline is the idea that humans, a species that puts so much focus on progress and improvement, could learn from the people and events of the past.

It’s difficult to convey to a modern audience the emotional impact of the stock market’s gyrations in the 1980s, or indeed in any distant decade because the most popular measures…

ONE OF THE GREATEST LEICA PHOTOGRAPHERS EVER – ERNST HAAS Ernst Haas (1921–1986) is considered one of the best, most celebrated and influential photographers of the 20th century and considered one of the pioneers of color photography. Haas was born in Vienna in 1921. He did not become a photographer until after the war. His early work showed Austrian prisoners of war returning home. This brought him to the attention of LIFE magazine. Initially he declined a job offer as staff photographer in…

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