Stock Market Crashes

During the panic of 2008-2009, HNN compiled some of the best historical and economic commentary on the web into a series of "Hot Topic" pages. Under the Related Links section of this page, you'll find full coverage of the 2008-2009 panic, as well as related issues, and under Commentary highlights of that coverage.

Check back for updates as the current situation unfolds.

• Stocks Plunge on Fears of Global Turmoil
• Nate Silver: The Stock Market Is the Least of Obama’s Worries

Related Links

• Debt Ceiling
• Financial Meltdown (Jan. 1, 2009 to 2010)
• Financial Meltdown (Oct. 16 to Dec. 31 2008)
• Financial Meltdown (Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, 2008)
• Biggest Financial Scandals in U.S. History
• The New Deal

Commentary

• James Livingston: Their Great Depression and Ours: Part I
• Lessons from the 1929 stock market crash
• John Steele Gordon: Why our system is prone to panics
• Robert S. McElvaine: Their Party Crashed. Ours May Too.
• Financial historian: Look to 1792 for economic lessons
• What Caused the Stock Market Crash of 1987?
• Maury Klein: Is it 1929 all over again?