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A lot of people blame the October 1987 break on program trading. Do you consider that 
scapegoatism?
Absolutely. The people who blame it on that do not understand the market. Politicians and people who lose 
money always look for scapegoats. In 1929, they blamed the crash on short sellers and margin requirements. There 
were lots of good reasons why the stock market went down. What they should focus on is why there were sellers on 
October 19, but no buyers.
I remember why I became even more bearish on the weekend before October 19. The week before, [Federal 
Reserve Chairman] Alan Greenspan announced that the balance of trade was getting much better and things were 
under control. Two days later, the balance of trade figures came out, and they were the worst in the history of the 
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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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