Black Monday?
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I remember that day or better, week. I was on a trade mission overseas at an oil and gas trade show. The only real communication back to North America in those days was via telex or booking a long distance phone call a day or two in advance at the hotel
KGB officebusiness centre.Didn’t really affect me personally. In those days my pay check went into paying weekly mortgage payments at 10.5%, taxes and utilities. Savings were a future dream.
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I was in college. I remember seeing Reagan come out and tell everyone the economic fundamentals were strong. There were real fears that it was 1929 all over again. In fact, I remember a news story interviewing the one old man still in the business who had been working in 1929