Crash

We all know about the Stock Market Crash of 1929, which sent our country the Depression. We are also all too familiar with the crash that happened in 2007. As these historic events show us, crashes occur when the stock market takes a huge, sudden nosedive into a land in which securities are trading substantially below their typical value. Usually, one stock drops massively, and everyone freaks out and pulls their money out of everything, and boom...market crash.

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