Today, business and finance is the lifeblood of any society, and something we often take for granted as a way of life. But the financial market doesn’t always work smoothly.
In the last 100 years alone we’ve experienced some pretty significant financial disasters, including the Great Depression, the 1973 oil crisis, Black Monday in 1987, the Asian Financial Crisis in the 90’s, the dot-come bubble burst and, in more recent times, the US housing bubble and Global Financial Crisis. Collectively, these disasters have all helped shape the financial industry that exists today.
As a virtual data room used by hundreds of thousands of financial professionals worldwide, we take an active interest in what’s happening in the financial industry. And we love hearing weird and wacky financial facts along the way. Here’s our Top 10 List of Weird Financial Facts:
