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Money Decade reshaped America in the 1980s
An overview of the 1980s as the Money Decade. It traces free market rise under Reagan, Milken junk bonds, the S&L crisis, and deregulation, plus the era’s sharp political, technological, and financial shifts. It notes Bubbling debt, Black Monday, Boesky, Keating, and the eventual shift to tighter controls and global capitalism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bill Gates
Michael Milken
Polit
Ical
Iran
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
International Business Machines
IBM
Margaret Thatcher
Europe
Japan
Vietnam
Paul Volcker
Stern Federal Reserve
Volcker
U.S
At&t
MCI
Sprint
Financial News Network
Lee Iacocca
Dallas
Phoenix
Charles Keating
Keating
United States
Ivan Boesky
Wall Street
CBS Records
Columbia Pictures
Rockefeller Center
Burger King
Soviet Union
Milken
Mikhail Gorbachev
Eastern Europe