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Looking back on Black Monday, the stock market crash of 1987

October 19, 2017

The stock market crash of October 1987. — Photo collage courtesy of Amy Pearl/ WNYC/ AP

This week marks the 30 year anniversary of Black Monday, the day the stock market lost 23 percent of its value in just six and a half hours.

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Economy

Here's why we shouldn't forget about the crash of '87

By David Brancaccio and Janet Nguyen

October 18, 2017

A trader on the New York Stock Exchange reacts on Oct. 19, 1987, as stocks are devastated during one of the most frantic days in the exchange's history. The Dow Jones index plummeted over 200 points in record trading. — MARIA BASTONE/AFP/Getty Images

On Black Monday, the stock market plunged 22.6 percent.

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Hearst's Joanna Coles: magazines are a finger beckoning to the future

By Kai Ryssdal and Bridget Bodnar

October 11, 2017

Joanna Coles attends The Cosmo 100 luncheon on December 7, 2015 in New York City. — Craig Barritt/Getty Images

Hearst's Chief Content Officer Joanna Coles on how she thinks about reinventing the 130 year old legacy magazine company.

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Tech

The Source Code: Nick Bostrom

By Molly Wood

October 11, 2017

Molly Wood talks with Nick Bostrom, director of the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford, about what would happen if artificial and human intelligence meet.

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Tech

36: "The Man in the High Castle" has a lot on his mind

By Molly Wood and Kai Ryssdal

October 10, 2017

A New York City subway car is covered in Nazi imagery to promote the Amazon television series “The Man in the High Castle.” — Spencer Platt/Getty Images

This week on the book club: The legacy of author Philip K. Dick's ideas about economics, technology and pop culture.

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Mentioned On Air

Looking back on Black Monday, the stock market crash of 1987

Here's why we shouldn't forget about the crash of '87

Hearst's Joanna Coles: magazines are a finger beckoning to the future

The Source Code: Nick Bostrom

36: "The Man in the High Castle" has a lot on his mind

WITH GENEROUS SUPPORT FROM…