1869年2月2日
In the first warning sign of the coming Panic of 1869, a New York newspaper reports that an IRS auditor has discovered that trustees of several city churches have taken $2 million in ecclesiastical trust funds and used them to speculate in stocks; what抯 more, several parishes have taken out mortgages on their church buildings to answer margin calls. 揥here the shepherd wanders wool-hunting,� notes chronicler James Medbery, 搕he sheep are apt to go astray.
1929年2月2日
During the 1920s, the stock market was transformed from a playground for the wealthy into common fodder for America. Fueled by the increasingly common belief that Wall Street offered a sure road to prosperity, more and more people devoted their attention, and pocketbooks, to the markets. America's burgeoning media industry encouraged this trend: Ladies Home Journal declared that "Everybody Ought to be Rich" and counseled its readers to funnel $15 a month into common stock. But, rather than set aside cash for investments, many Americans simply borrowed money to fund their dreams of getting rich; the nation's newfound faith in the markets was built on a mountain of margin trades and tenuous loans. Though it wasn't readily evident at the time, disaster was in the offing. Banking officials made a few precautionary moves in hopes of stemming the credit frenzy and, on this day in 1932, the Federal Reserve announced a ban on bank loans for margin trades. However, the move couldn't prevent the inevitable: in the fall of 1929, the markets suffered their famous crash, badly shaking the nation's faith in Wall Street.
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