Financial Times: Market Crash shakes world

US stock prices suffered their worst weekly loss in history on Friday, prompting a pledge from global policymakers to implement an aggressive but broad-brush plan to combat the financial crisis.

Finance ministers and central bankers meeting in Washington said they would use “all available tools” to prevent the failure of any systemically important banks after a day of virtually indiscriminate selling in Asia and Europe and unprecedented volatility in the US.

I really didn’t think I would witness another crash in my lifetime. My oh my. Read it all.

Posted in * Economics, Politics, Economy, Stock Market, The Credit Freeze Crisis of Fall 2008/The Recession of 2007--

One comment on “Financial Times: Market Crash shakes world

  1. Irenaeus says:

    “I really didn’t think I would witness another crash in my lifetime”
    —Kendall

    ANOTHER crash in your lifetime?

    In other words, after the 1987 crash, this is number 2 for me. I never thought I would see a number two.