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1. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2024/07/29When Yuppies Ruled - The New Yorker

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   Jul 22, 2024 · “Yuppies’ last rites readied” was the headline in the Times after Black Monday. “Sunset for Yuppies” was the headline in USA Today. Obituaries for the yuppie began to appear—notably ...

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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Black_Monday_(1987)Black Monday (1987) - Wikipedia

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   Black Monday (also known as Black Tuesday in some parts of the world due to time zone differences) was the global, severe and largely unexpected [1] stock market crash on Monday, October 19, 1987. Worldwide losses were estimated at US$1.71 trillion. [2] The severity of the crash sparked fears of extended economic instability [3] or even a ...

3. nymag.com › anniversary › 40th40th Anniversary - Jay McInerney on How Yuppies Revived the ...

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   Sep 22, 2008 · A few months after Black Monday, Newsweek declared the yuppie extinct, and various commentators have been writing obituaries ever since, the most powerful of which was a novel called American ...

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4. www.bbc.com › news › business-41685002Black Monday 1987: 'Our jaws hit the desk' - BBC

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   Oct 19, 2017 · AFP. Thirty years ago investors were stunned as global stock markets collapsed like a chain of dominos. The day became known as Black Monday as months and years of share price rises were reversed ...

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5. www.afr.com › markets › black-monday-the-1987-shareBlack Monday: the 1987 sharemarket crash was the wake-up call ...

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   Oct 19, 2017 · It wasn't a game but it wasn't easy to explain, either. It was a wake-up call for a lot of people. "The market was overinflated to hell. You couldn't believe what happened in the '80s. People were ...

6. www.bbc.co.uk › programmes › articlesBlack Monday - 13 November 1987 - BBC

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   Black Monday - 13 November 1987 A month or so ago, after the first bouts of rocketing stock markets in New York, Tokyo, London, Hong Kong, there was a newspaper despatch from London that was at ...

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   Was Black Monday a yuppie obituary?

   • A few months after Black Monday, Newsweek declared the yuppie extinct, and various commentators have been writing obituaries ever since, the most powerful of which was a novel called American Psycho, published in 1991 by Bret Easton Ellis. Ellis’s send-up of the materialism of the era is exhaustive to the point of feeling almost definitive.

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   When was Black Monday?

   • Thirty years ago investors were stunned as global stock markets collapsed like a chain of dominos. The day became known as Black Monday as months and years of share price rises were reversed in a single day of trading. One dealer recalls being so stunned "jaws were hitting the desk". In August 1987, every major US index hit record highs.

   Black Monday 1987: 'Our jaws hit the desk' - BBC

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   What happened to the yuppie era?

   • The yuppie strode forth from the economic wreckage of the nineteen-seventies: two oil crises, mortgage rates at thirteen per cent, a huge loss of manufacturing jobs in major industries like steel and cars, a stock market in the doldrums.

   When Yuppies Ruled - The New Yorker

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   Why is Black Monday called Black Monday?

   • The day became known as Black Monday as months and years of share price rises were reversed in a single day of trading. One dealer recalls being so stunned "jaws were hitting the desk". In August 1987, every major US index hit record highs. But in Autumn of that year investors began selling - and - by October, at a rapid rate.

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   Did Newsweek snide a year of the yuppie?

   • McGrath makes this point, but so did Hertzberg, and so, even, did Newsweek, in its “Year of the Yuppie” issue, in 1984—which, discounting the snideness that used to be standard news-magazine tone, was largely celebratory.

   When Yuppies Ruled - The New Yorker

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   Where did yuppies spend their money?

   • They spent money in places that catered to a clientele of the similarly situated, people who worked late and dined late—in New York, restaurants such as Le Madri and the Quilted Giraffe, where you could order a “beggar’s purse,” filled with beluga. McGrath names Cent’Anni, on Carmine Street, as a yuppie favorite.

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8. www.factmag.com › 2012/08/22 › black-mondayBlack Monday : unearthed documentary charts the death of ...

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   Aug 22, 2012 · On the morning of November 23, 1992, a Manchester film crew – led by one Tosh Ryan – got a phonecall tip-off alerting them to the fact that Factory Records was going to go into receivership ...