Critical Events In Complex Financial Systems
The Roaring ’20s came to a screeching halt when the stock market took a historic nosedive at the end of the decade. In the early part of 1928, the Federal Reserve Board began to feel a little uneasy about the situation in the stock market, where prices had been rising with alarming rapidity. Given that there have been more than 32,000 trading sessions since then, the judgment of at least this swath of history is that in any given six-month period there is a 0.79{bf6128eaee7daf804a40e739f155a69f2d5a72ca2bacccc9954495bcd60bdcac} chance of a daily crash that severe. Historically, this month is the worst month of…