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    Explore "stock market crash" with insightful episodes like "Listen Again: A Century Of Money (2020)" and "Episode 18: The Obscure Report That Spawned the ETF Industry" from podcasts like ""TED Radio Hour" and "Odd Lots"" and more!

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    Listen Again: A Century Of Money (2020)

    Listen Again: A Century Of Money (2020)
    Original broadcast date: December 11, 2020. Recessions, depressions, bubbles, and blue skies — our economy has a history of soaring and plummeting. This hour, TED speakers look to the past for lessons on building a more stable financial future. Guests include journalist Kathleen Day, financial advisor Tammy Lally, writer Elizabeth White, and filmmaker Abigail Disney.

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    Episode 18: The Obscure Report That Spawned the ETF Industry

    Episode 18: The Obscure Report That Spawned the ETF Industry

    In 1987, investors watched in horror as the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 22 percent in an event that became known as "Black Monday." Months later, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission published an 840-page report into the incident; in it was buried a seed that would eventually sprout into the $3 trillion market for exchange-traded funds. Eric Balchunas, ETF analyst for Bloomberg, has the story of the stock exchange executives who seized upon an idea to create what is now one of the world's most pervasive financial products - and the investors who passed them up.

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