timing.

[mangosteen]

So, it has occured to me that I will shortly be arriving in New York's Penn Station during evening rush hour on the day of the largest financial meltdown in recent US history.
More later.

Comments

Welcome to New York!

[avivasedai.livejournal.com]

Have fun with that crowd. I wonder if there will be more depressed energy or manic what's-next vibe going around?

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

beware of falling stockbrokers!

[concrete.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of the same, but that was more associated with the Black Thursday of '29.

I started looking for more info, and found an article in Time saying that during the '29 stock crash there were less suicides than any previous years.

Something must be done to set this right. If they won't jump by themselves, it is our imperative to make them jump.

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

Something must be done to set this right. If they won't jump by themselves, it is our imperative to make them jump.

I want to claim the moral high-ground on this, and claim it didn't make me smile and laugh. But I'd be lying.

[mrf-arch.livejournal.com]

My thought exactly - as long as none of 'em land on you, you should be fine. :-)

[sweh.livejournal.com]

Most windows don't open, any more. I think they got fed up with the blood stains.

[missionista.livejournal.com]

Penn Station will be empty. The bars will be full.

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

My thoughts *exactly*.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

A quick look around lower Manhattan up to 14th St., revealed nothing particularly different this evening.

(I was a bit distracted, though, since I had a 2' by 6' painting in my hands.)

[drwex]

Really? People from our NY office reported more than a few people carrying the "I just emptied my desk" cardboard boxes. I'm told that they were leaving Lehman's building a few at a time and then being pounced on by techno-vultures... excuse me "members of the press."

[fes42.livejournal.com]

The market is crazy right now trust me I know, I work in institutional investor services. However the Dow had only lost single digit percentage points yesterday, and closed up today 1.3% from yesterday.

1929 - double digit percentage points, 12.8% and 11.7% in two days of trading
1987 - Oct 19th, 22.86% in a day.
2001 - Sept 17th, 7% in a day after being closed for a week.

We have not even remotely hit these numbers this week.