In August 1987, Alan Greenspan was appointed chair of the US Federal Reserve. Two months later on October 19, now known as "Black Monday", the US stock market fell 22%.

Greenspan’s reaction was highly market orientated: for the first time, the Fed cut interest rates to support the equity market (the thinking being that a falling stock market would weaken the real economy)...

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