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This dimension sorts economic events by their basic category, a crisis, a policy change or a market crash. Wikipedia notes that economic history "can encompass a wide variety of topics, including equality, finance, technology, labour, and business," topics that map onto several distinct categories of event. Browsing by category keeps events of the same kind grouped together.

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  • Contains: Black Monday (1987), Black Monday (1987), lead section
    On that Monday, the DJIA fell 508 points (22.6 percent)
  • Contains: Dot-com Bubble, Dot-com bubble, Introduction
    Between 1995 and its peak in March 2000, investments in the Nasdaq Composite stock market index rose by 600%
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