The Gathering Storm: Lessons from History September has become a month of reckoning for global financial markets.
A brief review of the past reveals that this period often exposes underlying problems that have been simmering throughout the summer months.
Britain's abrupt departure from the Gold Standard in 1931, the UK's ejection from the Exchange Rate Mechanism in 1992, and the catastrophic collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 all occurred within a span of just three weeks in September.