Strangely enough the term "Black Friday" goes back to 1869 when Ulysses S. Grant issued a huge amount of public debt backed by gold to finance reconstruction. But manipulators tried to corner the market on gold. Unfortunately after Grant sold $4 million in gold buillon, stocks crashed on that Black Friday. The fiasco was started a Congressional investigation that scandalized the rest of Grant's administration.
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