People were investing in the stock market in record numbers. ... One method investors used to borrow money was margin buying. The investors only had to put up a certain percentage of the amount invested and the bank or institution would give the rest. If the price of stock went down the investor would get a margin call and be required to put up more money. ... But as a boom continues, there is an increasing number of investors who believe that they can take an upward ride with rising prices on the stock market and get out before the fall. ...

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Factors that lead to the Great Depression Stock Market crash of 1929. ... When investors lost confidence, the stock market collapsed, taking them along with it. ... Thus, the government took no action against unwise investing. ... Instead, most money was in the hands of a few families who saved or invested rather than spent their money on American goods. ... Stock Market crash of 1929. ...

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Many investors began to compare this drop to the stock market crash of 1929. ... Some investors were led to believe that a large deficit during the 3rd quarter of 1987 would cause a decline in stock prices. ... Finally, we must understand what can be done to prevent the stock market from crashing again. ... Uniform Margin Requirements were introduced to lessen the volatility of stocks, index futures, and stock options. ... Also, I feel that investors are smarter then they were 13 years ago. ...

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The stock market crash of 1929 is referred to as spark that ignited the Great Depression. ... The decline caused a selling panic by investor so that they could salvage some of their investment. ... Due to the stock market crash and the failure of the banks, consumer purchasing confidence decline. ... The first was the stock market crash of 1929. ... It was barely two months into the stock market crash when investors lost close to 40 billion dollars. ...

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People weren't investing in a company because they thought it was strong but they were just investing in it because they hoped that the price of the shares would rise. So many people invested in this way that the price of the shares rose out to an exaggerated value. ... As long as stock prices kept rising, speculation buying didn't seem to be a problem. ... Small investors panicked because they saw the fall in prices and rushed to sell their own shares. ... The stock market crash of October 1929 was a result of various weaknesses in the American economy. ...

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Foreign investors gained confidence in Canada and as a result new industries were developed. ... American companies also invested in Canada's natural resources and manufacturing industries. A seemingly endless supply of products was available and the stock market was booming with new investors. In 1928, the stock market had become a place where everyday people truly believed that they could become rich. While many gained from the growing stock market, no one predicted the crash of the market in 1929 and the loss they would have to experience. ...

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The citizens were concerned only with the price of the stock. ... As the share prices continued to fall, the stock ticker broke and caused investors to panic. Without any knowledge of the price of their shares, investors sold their shares at a remarkable pace. ... The stock market hit rock bottom on a date known as Black Tuesday. ... As the stock market crashed, the citizens panicked. ...

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The stock market crash was the one of the worst economical disasters in American history. ... Many banks went bankrupt because most of its investments were in the stock market, meaning that investors lost everything. ... This book did change my perspective on the Great Stock Market Crash of 1929. ... Obviously the crash of the stock market was explained in detail and I can relate it to modern day events in the stock market. There were also a lot of particulars about the investors and how they felt after the crash. ...

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All was well in the United States, and the stock market grew continuously. ... Bankers and investors tried to salvage the situation by buying bulks of stock, but the panic of the people had already set in, and that following Tuesday, October 29, known as Black Tuesday, an incredible 16.4 million shares were traded, and the prices on the market fell completely. ... This dream, however, would be shattered along with the crash of the stock market. ... Investors began to lose confidence in their banks, and many demanded cash deposits, causing banks to liquidate loans in order to come up with this ...

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Another of the rather perilous causes of the definitive Great Depression was excessive speculation in the stock market. Mass speculation had been going on throughout the 1920's, as people bought more and more stock on margin. One example of the reason why people would buy so much on margin is evident in this case with RCA: RCA stock went up from 85 all the way to 420 during 1928. ... The mass speculation in the prosperity of the stock market led to the economic downfall in the end. If it was not for this horrendous belief that the stock market was a "sure thing", then people would hav...

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New technologies were taking places, stock values kept rising higher than ever, and the industry was booming in the United States. People thought things would only get better, but as stock prices continued to rise, it reached levels that could not be justified by anticipated future earnings by the end of 1929 (The Great Depression). On October 24, 1929, the stock market finally crashed as investors kept on cashing in their investments over the years. ... Investors lost tons of money and those who had borrowed money were wiped out completely. ...

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In 1929, the stock market crashed in the United States. Thousands of investors lost large sums of money and many people lost everything. ... When the stock market took a plunge after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the government rebounded very quickly to keep us out of another depression. ...

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The stock market crashes at the end of this decade and the hard working men and women find themselves not only broke, but also without jobs. ... During this period of time the stock market is booming and those investors, who brave the chances of loosing it all, are being rewarded with large capital gains on their investments. ... The failure of her losing a little bit of money, in the stock market, might hurt her ratings on her prime time shows. She might end up on the front page, of the business world newspapers, exposing her failure as an investor. ...

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The stock market crash in October of 1929 had a historical impact on American society, transforming the roaring twenties into the Great Depression. ... The theme of this story is to exploit the behavior of wealthy Americans leading up to the stock market crash of 1929 by illustrating the effects of their shallow lives. ... This underlying plot builds up as Charlie reaps all the benefits of living in the Babylon-like city of Paris, but the climax comes when the stock market crashes and Paris and Charlie are brought to their knees losing everything they once treasured. ... The reader realizes th...

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The stock market crash in October of 1929 had a historical impact on American society, transforming the roaring twenties into the Great Depression. ... The theme of this story is to exploit the behavior of wealthy Americans leading up to the stock market crash of 1929 by illustrating the effects of their shallow lives. ... This underlying plot builds up as Charlie reaps all the benefits of living in the Babylon-like city of Paris, but the climax comes when the stock market crashes and Paris and Charlie are brought to their knees losing everything they once treasured. ... The reader realizes th...

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It has generally been established that the stock market crash in October 1929 was the beginning, and even the cause, of the Great Depression. ... When the stock market crashed, some banks made the crisis worse by calling in loans that borrowers were unable to pay. ... Another explanation for the Great Depression points to movements in the stock of money3. The Federal Reserve was concerned about the rising speculation on the Stock Exchange, fearing that a stock market crash would destabilize the economy. ... One source refers to these actions as the federal governments "war" on speculators...

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The Great Depression started soon after the crash of the stock market in October 1929. ... People had to stop spending and investing which caused unemployment that forced companies to lay off workers. ... Before the stock market crash the United States did not have a system like social security except for war veterans (The Great Depression). ...

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This happened right after the Stock Market crash in 1929 where millions of dollars were lost and countless investors lost all of their money. ... However this plan quickly failed in that because all of the money that the United States was investing was borrowed so this led to the monies that they lending to the other nations to dry up. ...

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The Roaring 20s refers to the "golden" decade of growth between 1920 - 1930 in post-war America. America in the 1920s was full of prosperity, growth, and was considered a crossroad of the traditional and modern. Such as the Fundamentalists of "old school" religion clashing with the Modernists of new...

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