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The largest one day percentage decline in stock market history. On October 19, 1987, the Dow Jones f...

The worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, triggered by the subprime mortgage market col...

The fastest bear market in history, triggered by the COVID 19 pandemic. From February 19 to March 23...

OAPEC proclaimed an oil embargo against nations supporting Israel during the Yom Kippur War. Oil pri...

The second oil shock, triggered by the Iranian Revolution. Oil production in Iran collapsed, and pri...

On October 31, 2008, an anonymous person or group called Satoshi Nakamoto published a 9 page paper t...

FTX, once the second largest cryptocurrency exchange, collapsed in November 2022. Founder Sam Bankma...

In July 1944, 730 delegates from 44 nations met at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to design the postw...

A massive collapse in cryptocurrency prices in 2022. Bitcoin fell from 69,000 in November 2021 to 16...

Central banks worldwide raised interest rates aggressively in 2022 to combat inflation. The US Feder...

In the years before January 1, 2000, companies and governments worldwide spent an estimated 300 to 6...

The Bretton Woods Conference in July 1944 was formally called the United Nations Monetary and Financ...

In June 2018, copper prices plunged 20 percent in weeks. The crash was triggered by trade war fears ...

The LIBOR scandal involved major banks manipulating the London Interbank Offered Rate, the benchmark...

ESG investing, considering environmental, social, and governance factors, grew from a niche to over ...

Terra Luna was a cryptocurrency ecosystem worth 60 billion at its peak in April 2022. The TerraUSD s...

Special Drawing Rights were created by the IMF in 1969 as an international reserve asset. SDRs are n...

The Plaza Accord was an agreement in September 1985 by the G5 nations (US, UK, France, West Germany,...

Crowdfunding emerged in the late 2000s as a new way to raise capital. Kickstarter, founded in 2009, ...