Foundation
Practice Drills: Comparing Two Historical Financial Crises Side by Side
A drill course for curious investors and macro readers who know the stories of famous crashes but have never compared two of them properly. You learn one fixed comparison template and one consistent way to measure a crash, then work through four Indian pairs: the 2008 Global Financial Crisis against the 2020 COVID crash, the Harshad Mehta scam against the Ketan Parekh scam, the 1991 balance of payments crisis against the 2013 taper tantrum, and IL&FS against Yes Bank. Each pair is scored on the same rows, so the differences that matter stand out. You finish by building your own comparison and turning the common threads into a checklist you can use the next time markets fall.
Financial CrisesIndian Market HistoryDrawdown and RecoveryPolicy ResponseMarket RegulationCurrency CrisesCredit Events
MODULES
6
DURATION
~3 hrs
TRACK
Macro & Markets
What You'll Master
Compare any two crises with one fixed eight-row template: trigger, transmission, depth, speed, duration, policy response, recovery and lasting change
Measure a crash consistently using peak, trough, drawdown and time to recover on the Nifty and Sensex
Find and read the primary data yourself on NSE, RBI DBIE and SEBI
Explain why the 2008 crisis and the 2020 COVID crash fell differently and recovered at very different speeds
Contrast the mechanics and regulatory fallout of the 1992 Harshad Mehta and 2001 Ketan Parekh scams
Compare India's two rupee crises, 1991 and 2013, on reserves, deficits and the policy response
Tell contagion from containment by putting IL&FS and Yes Bank side by side
Turn the patterns across eight crises into a personal crisis checklist for your own portfolio
Access Level
LEARNER
Everything included
Full Text Playbooks
Actionable Exercises
Mobile Reading Mode
Lifetime Updates
Curriculum Breakdown
Chapter 1: The Comparison Toolkit
3 LessonsChapter 2: Pair 1: The 2008 Global Financial Crisis vs the 2020 COVID Crash
3 LessonsChapter 3: Pair 2: Harshad Mehta 1992 vs Ketan Parekh 2001
3 Lessons▶
Drill: How the Harshad Mehta and Ketan Parekh Scams Worked: Bank Receipts vs Pay Orders and Circular Trading12 min read
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Drill: 1992 vs 2001 Scoring the Damage: Sensex Falls, Who Got Hurt and How Long It Lasted11 min read
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Drill: 1992 vs 2001 Regulatory Fallout: SEBI Statutory Powers, Rolling Settlement and the End of Badla11 min read