Scenarios about 'stock market crash'
A sudden, dramatic decline in stock prices across a significant cross-section of a stock market, resulting in significant loss of paper wealth. Stock market crashes have historically triggered economic downturns, recessions, or depressions as seen in the 1929 Wall Street Crash that preceded the Great Depression and the 2008 crash during the global financial crisis. In alternate history scenarios, different market crashes or their prevention can dramatically alter economic development, political power structures, and social movements.
What If The Black Monday Crash of 1987 Never Happened?
Exploring the alternate timeline where the largest single-day percentage decline in U.S. stock market history never occurred, potentially reshaping the trajectory of financial markets, regulation, and global economic development.
What If The Great Depression Never Happened?
Exploring the alternate timeline where the catastrophic economic collapse of 1929-1939 was avoided, fundamentally altering the development of modern economic systems, geopolitics, and social welfare.
What If The Great Depression Never Happened?
Exploring how the global economy, political movements, and social safety nets would have developed if the catastrophic economic collapse of 1929-1939 had been avoided.