Gosling Grouse: A crash course

GOSLING'S GROUSE

I want us to interview a stockbroker who has jumped off the top of a building," screamed the news editor. "It is no good boss, he probably would not be able to talk to us," replied some smarty pants across the newsroom. "That is no excuse," said the news editor, "find me one."

We ignored him and went back to finding large trees that had been blown down instead. There were more of them and even tabloid hacks like us realised trees did not speak, dead or alive. These are my memories of the Great Crash of October 1987, which was 25 years ago and came at a time when I worked in the real world, rather than the bubble that is financial services. A year later, I left the world of car crashes, celebrities and crime to go ‘legit’, because working out what caused stock market crashes seemed more interesting. At the time it was the largest and most significant stock ...