The Pattern That Predicts Every Market Crash

The Pattern That Predicts Every Market Crash What if every major market crash in history—1929, 1987, 2008, and 2020—followed the exact same pattern? In this deep-dive documentary, we uncover the forgotten pattern behind every financial crisis that Wall Street doesn't want you to see.From Black Tuesday in 1929 to the COVID crash of 2020, the same four elements appear before every catastrophic market collapse: extreme leverage, collective delusion, regulatory failure, and a trigger event meeting a fragile system. This isn't coincidence—it's the invisible architecture of financial collapse. Sources: PRIMARY HISTORICAL SOURCES Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (1927-1930). Annual reports. Federal Reserve Board Archives. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (1943). Banking and monetary statistics, 1914-1941. Federal Reserve Board. Federal Reserve Bank of New York. (1928-1929). Archives: Correspondence and meeting minutes. Federal Reserve Bank of New York Historical Archives. New York Stock Exchange. (1920-1933). Historical statistics. NYSE Archives. U.S. Congress. (1932-1934). Stock exchange practices: Hearings before the Committee on Banking and Currency [Pecora Commission]. U.S. Government Printing Office. ACADEMIC BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS Galbraith, J. K. (2009). The great crash 1929 (Reissue ed.). Houghton Mifflin. (Original work published 1954) Kindleberger, C. P., & Aliber, R. Z. (2015). Manias, panics, and crashes: A history of financial crises (7th ed.). Palgrave Macmillan. Rappoport, P., & White, E. N. (1993). Was there a bubble in the 1929 stock market? Journal of Economic History, 53(3), 549-574. Shiller, R. J. (2015). Irrational exuberance (3rd ed.). Princeton University Press. White, E. N. (1990). The stock market boom and crash of 1929 revisited. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 4(2), 67-83. Wigmore, B. A. (1985). The crash and its aftermath: A history of securities markets in the United States, 1929-1933. Greenwood Press. CONTEMPORARY FINANCIAL PUBLICATIONS Barron's Magazine. (1928-1929). Market commentary [Archived editions]. The Commercial and Financial Chronicle. (1928-1929). Weekly issues [Archived editions]. The New York Times. (1929, September-November). Business and financial coverage [Archived editions]. The Wall Street Journal. (1929, October). Market crash coverage [Archived editions]. BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS Ahamed, L. (2009). Lords of finance: The bankers who broke the world. Penguin Press. Klein, M. (2001). Rainbow's end: The crash of 1929. Oxford University Press. Partnoy, F. (2009). The match king: Ivar Kreuger, the financial genius behind a century of Wall Street scandals. PublicAffairs. Sobel, R. (1968). The great bull market: Wall Street in the 1920s. W.W. Norton. ECONOMIC DATA AND STATISTICAL SOURCES National Bureau of Economic Research. (Various years). NBER macrohistory database. https://www.nber.org/research/data/nb... Shiller, R. J. (Various years). Online data: Stock market data used in "Irrational exuberance" [CAPE ratio and historical data]. Yale University. http://www.econ.yale.edu/~shiller/dat... U.S. Census Bureau. (1975). Historical statistics of the United States: Colonial times to 1970. U.S. Government Printing Office.