... Although we did not experience a depression, the ramifications of October 19, 1987 are still felt in today's economy. In order to understand the stock market crash of 1987 and prevent it from occurring again, we must understand first what happened, understand why it occurred, and finally understand what ... it exposes investor's greed. In theory, these investors knew that the market was in for a big fall, but they just decided to keep investing and try to squeeze every last cent that they could out of the market. While there was overevaluation taking place, this could not be the ... the m...

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