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A brief look at financial panics, past and present.
Vast Bailout by U.S. Proposed in Bid to Stem Financial Crisis
from New York Times, September 19, 2008
from Wall Street Journal, September 19, 2008
Panic of 1907
from The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
Financial Panics and Crises
from The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
It's not uncommon for students to use information from the Web in research papers without closely evaluating it. One of criteria for evaluation should always be "currency" of the information. The Washington Post recently gave an excellent example of investors often make the same mistake. It has real world consequences. Take a look at the following article:
2002's News, Yesterday's Sell-Off, Sept. 9, 2008
In these jittery times, let's hope that most investors are making decisions based on current, reliable information!
