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The event is examined and analyzed in this 24 page paper. The voices of analysts who both predicted a bull market and a bear market shortly before the crash are heard. The event is analyzed to see what lessons can be learned and applied to the future. Whether or not a similar event is likely to happen again is addressed. Bibliography lists 20 sources.
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were probably getting into a holiday mood before the crash. Then boom. On October 19, 1987 the market went into a free fall They named it Black Monday. Analysts had
different takes on the matter. Michael Metz claimed that we were out of the woods during the weeks that followed (Koepp 32). Jay Golinger was more cautious, saying that there
was not need to go back into a house on fire (32). Yoshitaka Yamashita, a Japanese executive, said that the worst was over (32). While the future looked bright to
the analysts shortly after the disaster, Donald Straszheim, a Merrill Lynch executive, estimated that American households lost about six years of savings (32) The 1987 crash was serious
but jokes circulated anyway. They often do in times of crisis. Brokers were saying things like "I slept like a baby last night. I woke up every hour and
cried." and "Whats the difference between a yuppie arbitrageur and a pigeon? The pigeon can still make a deposit on a BMW" (US News & World Report 16). A
sign hung above a trading post at the stock exchange which read "Lost Three-legged dog, blind in one eye, recently castrated. Answers to the name of Lucky " (16).
The humor seemed to be endless during those hard times but not everyone was laughing. There was still some panic. One unfortunate incident concerned an client who lost nearly his
entire multimillion-dollar investment (Koepp 32). Rather than look at the situation philosophically, he walked into a Merrill Lynch outlet and killed the branch manager, seriously wounded a broker and
then committed suicide (32). As the stories from 1929 seem to be replicated by people who go ballistic after a crash, it should be noted that the 1987 crash was
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