{"id":1939,"date":"2010-05-11T18:40:34","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T18:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/astrologicalmusings\/2010\/05\/1987-crash-was-another-fat-fin.html"},"modified":"2010-05-11T18:40:34","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T18:40:34","slug":"1987-crash-was-another-fat-fin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/astrologicalmusings\/2010\/05\/1987-crash-was-another-fat-fin.html","title":{"rendered":"1987 crash was another &#8220;fat finger&#8221; event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Last week&#8217;s Wall Street roller coaster ride&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/astrodynamics.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/07\/mercury-retrograde-hits-wall-street\/\" target=\"_blank\">occurred under Mercury retrograde<\/a>, but I didn&#8217;t realize that the crash in October 1987 also occurred under a cloud of technological suspicion. &nbsp;Like the May 6 event, there were no major news events that could have stimulated the crash, and it seemed to come from nowhere. &nbsp;Like the May 6 event, it is suspected that technological glitches impaired the normal flow of market trading, making it seem as though a major sell-off was occurring.<\/p>\n<p>Like the May 6 event, Mercury was retrograde.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just saying. &nbsp;(<a href=\"http:\/\/en.allexperts.com\/e\/b\/bl\/black_monday_(1987).htm\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s a good article<\/a>&nbsp;about the 1987 crash.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week&#8217;s Wall Street roller coaster ride&nbsp;occurred under Mercury retrograde, but I didn&#8217;t realize that the crash in October 1987 also occurred under a cloud of technological suspicion. &nbsp;Like the May 6 event, there were no major news events that could have stimulated the crash, and it seemed to come from nowhere. &nbsp;Like the May&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mercury-retrograde"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>1987 crash was another &quot;fat finger&quot; 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