December 1987 For the past 5 years I've been feeling foolish for not getting in on the stock market boom. After the whipsawing that the Dow took in October, I'm beginning to feel a lot smarter for having been invested in real estate. I entered this world just after the crash of 1929 in time to experience a decade of depression which was only ended by WWII. Now I can lay claim to having experienced a market crash which was almost twice as great in terms of percentages and perhaps 100 times as great in terms of monetary losses. In the interim between late August and mid October about $1,000,000,000,000. in the value of stocks was lost to investors. That's almost enough to run the country for a year!
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