1931 was the worst, but notice that 1930 was not far behind.
31 December 2008
2008 Was the Third Worst Year for US Stocks Since 1896
Category:
Great Depression,
stock market crash,
worst years
"The dazzling and consuming act of pride that transformed the angel of light into a prince of darkness condemned him to an insatiable, desperate to acquire. The loss of the wellspring of life gives rise to an essentially inextinguishable thirst. The entire world can not fill the emptiness. Having fallen from the eternal, Satan's desires are endless and insatiable. Having fallen from pure Being, he seeks to possess. All he takes into himself he destroys."
Denis de Rougemont, Switzerland, 1944