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Crisis to study

Insight

- Until the brain of man evolves to something else, it will continuously oscillate between adrenaline and dopamine. History inevitably repeats itself.
- More can be learned about survival from failure than success
- Since 1970s, crashes have occurred with more frequency

Major events

- 1997 financial crisis
- 2000 dot com bust
- 2003 9/11 incident
- 2004/5 SARs
- 2008 Subprime bust
- 2015 Saudi Arabia oil dump

Company specific

- 1998 Microsoft Anti-Trust
- 2014 Alibaba
- [2015 LinkedIn](http://garyteh.com/2018/05/linkedin-missing-earnings-expectations-for-4th-straight-quarter/)
- 2016 Apple terrorist scare
- 2017 Equifax data breach
- 2018 Tesla self driving car crash
- 2018 Facebook data scandal

Related writing

- Trading strategy that capitalizes on [loss aversion and reversion to mean](http://garyteh.com/2018/04/trading-strategy-capitalizing-on-loss-aversion/)