Thirty years ago nowadays,on October 19th, 1987, or the stock market dropped a whopping 22.6 percent. Black Monday” as it’s come to be known sent the financial world into a tailspin.
WNYC’s Alexandra Starr has been reporting on the anniversary in a special series called "Crash Course: Black Monday on Wall Street,1987," she explains what happened in '87 and what whether anything it tells us about weaknesses in the markets nowadays. This segment is hosted by Todd Zwillich.
Source: thetakeaway.org