Today is the 140 Year Anniversary of Black Friday 1869 and the Gold 'Crash'

Published in Black Friday  Economics  History  History  on 24 September 2009

Today is the 140 Year Anniversary of the original Black Friday on September 24th, 1869. Since then the word 'Black' has been used to describe any day that the stock market, currencies or financial markets have crashed. There have been many, many such crashes but the one that birthed the term happened on this day 140 years ago.

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