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What nickname describes the brief 2010 U.S. market plunge and rapid rebound caused partly by automated trading?
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Flash Crash
Which New York bank's failure helped spark the Panic of 1907?
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Knickerbocker Trust Company
Which city hosted the stock exchange whose 1873 collapse helped trigger the Panic of 1873?
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Vienna
Which 1998 hedge fund’s near-collapse prompted a Federal Reserve-organized rescue of major Wall Street firms?
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Long-Term Capital Management
Which pandemic caused the 2020 stock-market crash and the fastest bear-market entry in U.S. history?
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COVID-19
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Which New York bank's failure helped spark the Panic of 1907?
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Knickerbocker Trust Company
Which 1998 hedge fund’s near-collapse prompted a Federal Reserve-organized rescue of major Wall Street firms?
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Long-Term Capital Management
Which 1720 British bubble burst when the South Sea Company’s share price collapsed?
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The South Sea Bubble
Which U.S. government program authorized up to $700 billion to address the 2008 financial crisis?
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Troubled Asset Relief Program
Which computer-driven trading strategy was blamed for worsening the 1987 stock-market crash?
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Portfolio insurance
Which U.S. president signed the Emergency Banking Act after the 1933 banking crisis?
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Franklin D. Roosevelt