I was a young student in 2001 when it felt like the world had gone insane.
The World Trade Center twin towers in New York City had just collapsed, brought down by two passenger jets. A third struck the United States’ Pentagon. Together the attacks precipitated a stock market crash wiping out US$1.4 trillion the first week.
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