http://www.metafilter.com/tags/BlackTuesday Posts tagged with 'BlackTuesday' at MetaFilter. Tue, 29 Oct 2002 02:08:57 -0800 Tue, 29 Oct 2002 02:08:57 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/21172/ <a href="http://www.mcalvany.com/samples/DEL_W.html">A speculative bubble is created when objectivity, reasoning, and valuation give way to greed and an insatiable desire for profits. </a> On this date in history... October 29, 1929: The date of the <a href="http://www.arts.unimelb.edu.au/amu/ucr/student/1997/Yee/1929.htm">stock market crash </a>that marked the start of the Great Depression in the United States. Could it have been averted by the reading of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0934380236/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds </a>by <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/mackayP.jpg">Charles Mackay</a>? tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.21172 Tue, 29 Oct 2002 02:08:57 -0800 anniversary BlackTuesday brokenlink bubble crash finance GreatDepression history StockMarket puddsharp