2020s
20 entries
COVID Crash 2020
The fastest bear market in history, triggered by the COVID 19 pandemic. From February 19 to March 23...
Silicon Valley Bank Collapse
The second largest bank failure in US history. Silicon Valley Bank, which served tech startups, coll...
Tesla Stock Split
Tesla announced a 5 for 1 stock split on August 11, 2020. Before the split, Tesla traded above 2,000...
GameStop Short Squeeze
In January 2021, retail investors on the Reddit forum r/wallstreetbets drove GameStop stock from 20 ...
Negative Oil Prices 2020
On April 20, 2020, West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures traded at minus 37.63 dollars per barre...
FTX Collapse
FTX, once the second largest cryptocurrency exchange, collapsed in November 2022. Founder Sam Bankma...
AI Stock Boom
A massive rally in artificial intelligence stocks starting in 2023. Nvidia, the leading AI chip make...
Meme Stock Era
A phenomenon starting in January 2021 where retail investors coordinated on Reddit and social media ...
Special Purpose Acquisition Companies
SPACs, or blank check companies, raised a record 83 billion in 2020 and 162 billion in 2021. SPACs g...
Crypto Winter 2022
A massive collapse in cryptocurrency prices in 2022. Bitcoin fell from 69,000 in November 2021 to 16...
Regional Banking Crisis 2023
A banking crisis that saw the second, third, and fourth largest bank failures in US history. Silicon...
Chinese Property Crisis
A crisis in the Chinese real estate sector starting in 2021. Evergrande, Chinas second largest prope...
Interest Rate Shock 2022
Central banks worldwide raised interest rates aggressively in 2022 to combat inflation. The US Feder...
March 2020 Circuit Breakers
In March 2020, the S&P 500 triggered circuit breakers four times in eight trading sessions, halting ...
Inflation Reduction Act
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 was the largest climate investment in US history, allocating 369...
CHIPS Act
The CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 allocated 52 billion to subsidize semiconductor manufacturing in t...
Biden Stock Market
During the Biden presidency starting January 2021, the S&P 500 initially continued rising, reaching ...
SPAC Comeback Criticism
After the SPAC boom of 2020 to 2021, studies showed that most SPAC mergers destroyed value for retai...
Terra Luna Crash
Terra Luna was a cryptocurrency ecosystem worth 60 billion at its peak in April 2022. The TerraUSD s...
Bitcoin ETF Approval
On January 10, 2024, the SEC approved the first US spot Bitcoin ETFs. The approval came after a deca...