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    The Wall Street crash of 1929 Introduction In late October 1929, years of great prosperity ended in a sudden halt and resulted in a great catastrophe. The Wall Street crash of 1929, also known as “The great crash” of “Black Tuesday”, was the biggest stock market crash since the beginning of stock records. Many speculators lost a lot of money on big investments, banks also began to decline, and this later was followed by a depression across the world that lasted for about a decade and which inevitably

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    The Wall Street Crash of 1929

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    Imagine yourself in a situation where you could never eat enough in a day because you weren’t sure there would be a meal waiting for you the next day. Imagine if those considered poor fell from even greater heights and landed in an even deeper pocket of desperation. Imagine if the poorer you were and the hungrier you became. The hunger rendered you weak and with this weakness you began to find it difficult to think clearly and to function properly. Imagine if you needed to find work to support a

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    The Wall Street crash, also known as Black Tuesday,happened on October 24th in 1929.This day was to be remembered as the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States and one of the most important economic events ever. The crash has been researched globally by economists and has increased the understanding of risks in economy and stock market. In this essay, we will look at the stock market at the time, as well as causes and effects of the crash. A fundamental factor

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    The Wall Street crash of 1929 was one of the most unexpected and devastating financial collapses in the history of the world. On October 28th, known as “Black Monday”, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped a record high 38 points, or 13%, in one day. The next day, known as “Black Tuesday”, the market continued its decline as it dropped another 30 points, or 12%. A total of 16.4 million stocks were also traded on the Black Tuesday, which was a record that was not broken for almost 40 years. Many

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    Causes of the Wall Street Crash On 24 October 1929, some shareholders began to lose confidence and believing that the prices of shares could not continue to rise forever, decided to sell. A panic began, and so many shares were sold on that day that it became known as Black Thursday. The Wall Street Crash was under way. By Tuesday 29 October so many shares were being sold that the teleprinters could not keep up, share prices continued to fall, and people lost vast sums

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    Still having taste of taste of luxury in their mind but still with the impact of 1929 wall street crash, people are desperate and most of the are wage earning worker are unemployed. Blaming for uneven wealth distribution and purchasing power in 1920s and some blame for World War1 and agricultural fall. But none took the responsibility as there was no insurance. So when people had no work had no money and they did not buy causing economy ground to a halt and became Grate Desperation. History says

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    The Relationship of The Wall Street Crash and The Great Depression In this essay I will be explaining the causes of the Great Depression The Wall Street Crash was the drop in share prices in 1929.The Great Depression was the period in the 1930’s when the USA and other countries like Germany suffered a great deal of poverty i.e. hunger, unemployment, homelessness. Throughout this essay it will be explained how the Wall Street crash was a cause of the Great Depression

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    The wall street crash also know as the wall street crash was an event on september 24th,1869.This event made millions of americans terrified and was one of the reasons for the Great Depression.The stock market crash of 1869 lasted for many days which made the american people panic.The stock market impacted american culture because it forced the government to realize the program controlling couldn’t be trusted.American needs to be prepared for the future, and the unemployment needed a boost. The

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    Great Crash 1929,” “only after the market crash were there plausible grounds to suppose that things might now for a long while get a lot worse” (pg. 90). During the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the most destructive stock market crash happened in the United States’ history. There are numerous causes dedicated to this crash, such as, the inequality and the poor regulations of structures. The causes of this 1929 Great Crash are similar to those of the Financial Crisis in 2008. However, the Wall Street

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    This paper will talk about the various reasons why the crash of Wall Street happened; such as the credit boom, buying on margin, and irrational exuberance. Also, mismatch between production and consumption, and the weaknesses of the banking system. The many reasons why the Great Depression occurred but the main ones are from the uneven distribution of income, loss of export sales, and mistakes by the Federal Reserve. This paper will also give examples on how the economic problems in 1929 were similar

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