Wall Street hopeful about 2009 to provide relief after real bad 2008

The last trading day of 2008 on Wall Street provided a finality to a terrible year.  We haven't seen an Wall St Crash like this — the worst since the Great Depression, wiping out over $6.9 trillion in stock market wealth. Six years of stock gains disappeared as the economy crumbled and markets crashed around the globe, shaking the confidence of professional and individual investors alike.  So what is going to happen this year.  Will Obama have an effect?  How about government bailouts in general.  Everyone on the street is sitting on the edge of their chair. Tags: ,

Stock Market Crashes – Five Stock Market Downturns Since 1929

For many people, the Financial Crisis of 2008 is the first they’ve experienced. DBKP takes a look at five stock market crashes of the last 80 years and what happened. Tags: ,

The Great Depression of 2008 Not quite yet

NEW YORK: There’s something about hundreds of billions of dollars vanishing overnight that begs a comparison to the 1929 market crash and the Great Depression. Almost — but not yet.  It still has to get worse. Tags: , ,

Is there still a real Wall Street Crash to come?

The Dow Jones last hit bottom at 7,000 points in 2003 and it is not unreasonable in current economic circumstances – which are surely very much worse than 2003 – to expect at least a return to those levels. Tags: ,

Big Mommy cashes in on Wall Street crash

The narrative of the past few months has nonetheless shown the unpredictability of the dynamics that dominate the election. McCain's candidacy was toast, then he came back and won the nomination. Obama won a string of primaries but then seemed unable to seal the deal against Hillary Clinton, who won the big states at the end. Tags: ,

Wall Street Crash 2008

Perhaps the Great Depression of 1929 could be repeating itself, but this time unfortunately the world economy seems far more reliant on each other and countries are far more intertwined these days. Tags: ,