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TO GO WITH AFP STORY : " The Great Crash of 1929, and lessons taming the crisis of 2008 ". This undate photo shows traders working in Wall Street, in New York. October 1929 was the beginning of the 1929 Stock Market Crash. The financial firestorm that has spread around the world from the US home loan market in the last 14 months is now in 2008 widely described as the biggest crisis since the crash of 1929, but with some big differences. Probably a "once-in-a-century type of event," in the words of former US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, "outstripping anything I've seen." For Macquarie Private Wealth associate director Marcus Droga, the collapse of Lehman brothers and other Wall Street distress dignals on Monday probably marked "more in one day of financial history than we've seen since the great crash of 1929." AFP PHOTO (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)