world. Right away I said, "This guy is either a fool or a liar. He doesn't have any idea what is going on." Then on the
weekend before October 19, you had [Treasury Secretary] Baker telling the world we were going to stick it to the
Germans by letting the dollar go, because the Germans weren't loosening monetary and fiscal policy as Baker had
demanded. It looked like the trade wars of the 1930s all over again.
I
was in a panic—and I was already short! I called Singapore that Sunday night to add to my shorts.
[Singapore opens earlier than we do.] So all those guys who came in on Monday to sell had very, very good reasons
to sell, and there were no buyers around. There were no buyers, because there was no reason for people to buy. Even
the buyers were scared and bearish that Monday.
Are you saying the crash was caused by Greenspan and Baker?
There were a lot of causes: Greenspan, Baker, the fact that money was tight, the steady worsening of the
balance of trade, and you had a market that had spiked up to 2,700 six weeks earlier. If you check, you will see that,
during 1987, while the S&P and the Dow were going up, the rest of the market was quietly eroding away. In
December 1986,1 shorted the financial stocks, and throughout 1987,1 didn't lose any money, even though the Dow
and the S&P were going through the roof.
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