At the beginning of 2020 – at the start of the emerging Corona epidemic – immediate effects on the stock market or share prices could

In the decades before the crisis, US policy had deregulated financial markets. Banks could exploit loopholes with unregulated institutions abroad to take more and more

The dotcom bubble (or internet bubble) refers to the speculative bubble of the new internet technology market in the early 2000s. Dotcom stands for the

The 1987 crash is considered one of the worst in the financial industry. Problems in the United States were considered decisive. In particular, some political

When Paul Volcker became head of the US Federal Reserve in 1979, the inflation rate was 13 percent. His shock therapy helped. In 1979, the

The stock market crash of 1973 to 1974 caused a so-called bear market between January 1973 and December 1974. All the world’s major stock markets

In the so-called, almost forgotten, tech crash of 1970, the S&P 500 Index fell a total of 36.1% from its high of 108.37 points reached

The crash of 1966 occurred after two decades of almost uninterrupted economic growth and stock market gains following World War II. When the government under

The Flash Crash of 1962, also known as the Kennedy Slide, is the name given to the decline in the stock market from December 1961

Also known as the Eisenhower Recession, the 1957-58 recession manifested itself in a severe, worldwide economic downturn. The effects of the recession spread beyond the

This post-WWII bear market was caused by investors mistakenly assuming that the end of wartime spending would result in an economic slowdown. Instead, there was

The bear market of 1937-1942 began when the Great Depression was still ongoing in the 1930s, but at the same time there was the threat

Black Thursday in America, Black Friday in Europe is a term for 24 October 1929 and the associated most momentous stock market crash in history.