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  2. Stock market bubble - Wikipedia

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    A stock market bubble is a type ... 1920s just before the Wall Street crash of 1929 and the following Great Depression, and the Dot-com bubble of the late 1990s, ...

  3. Edgar Lawrence Smith - Wikipedia

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    Common Stocks As Long Term Investments, originally published 1924, reprinted (2003) by Kessinger Publishing, ISBN 0-7661-6073-4; Tides in the Affairs of Men. An Approach to the Appraisal of Economic Change, originally published 1940, reprinted (1989) by Fraser Publishing, ISBN 0-87034-090-5 (In this book, he sought to establish a connection between economic booms/busts and changes in the weather.)

  4. History of private equity and venture capital - Wikipedia

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    The collapse of the high yield market in 1989 and 1990 would signal the end of the LBO boom. At that time, many market observers were pronouncing the junk bond market "finished". This collapse would be due largely to three factors: The collapse of Drexel Burnham Lambert, the foremost underwriter of junk bonds (discussed above).

  5. Stock photography - Wikipedia

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    A public domain stock photo titled "frog on palm frond". Stock photography is the supply of photographs that are often licensed for specific uses. [1] The stock photo industry, which began to gain hold in the 1920s, [1] has established models including traditional macrostock photography, [2] midstock photography, [3] and microstock photography. [4]

  6. Wall Street crash of 1929 - Wikipedia

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    The Dow Jones Industrial Average, 1928–1930. The "Roaring Twenties", the decade following World War I that led to the crash, [4] was a time of wealth and excess.Building on post-war optimism, rural Americans migrated to the cities in vast numbers throughout the decade with hopes of finding a more prosperous life in the ever-growing expansion of America's industrial sector.

  7. History of Chicago - Wikipedia

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    [17] On July 12, 1834, the Illinois from Sackets Harbor, New York, was the first commercial schooner to enter the harbor, a sign of the Great Lakes trade that would benefit both Chicago and New York state. [15]: 29 Chicago was granted a city charter by the State of Illinois on March 4, 1837; [18] it was part of the larger Cook County. By 1840 ...

  8. Here’s a look at photos from the stock show parades going back to the 1930s, along with some more recent images from the 2000s. March 12, 1937: Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show parade ...

  9. Causes of the Great Depression - Wikipedia

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    The stock market crash was not the first sign of the Great Depression. "Long before the crash, community banks were failing at the rate of one per day". [ 78 ] It was the development of the Federal Reserve System that misled investors in the 1920s into relying on federal banks as a safety net.