September 24, 1869:
"Black Friday": Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.
Ah, nothing makes a market more exciting than an attempt to corner it. Jay Gould had quite the career and James Fisk was nothing if not attention-grabbing. Grant's corrupt brother-in-law promised them that the government wouldn't intervene. If I remember rightly, this pretty well ruined Fisk, while Gould lived on to torment markets even more.
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