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Also called the Great Crash or the Wall Street Crash, leading to the Great Depression. Recession of 1937–1938: 1937 USA: Lasting around a year, this share price fall was triggered by an economic recession within the Great Depression and doubts about the effectiveness of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policy. Kennedy Slide of 1962: 28 May ...
The Day America Crashed: A Narrative Account of the Great Stock Market Crash of October 24, 1929. New York: G.P. Putnam. ISBN 0399116133. Thomas, Gordon and Morgan-Witts, Max (1979). The Day the Bubble Burst: A Social History of the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Garden City, New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0385143702; Watkins, Tom H. (1993).
List of gridiron football players who died during their careers; List of association footballers who died after on-field incidents; List of athletics competitors who died during their careers; Sudden cardiac death of athletes
In 1982, when Forbes first printed its list of the 400 richest Americans — a list Buffett has been on every single year of its existence — he was listed with a net worth of $250 million, a ...
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The book argues that the 1929 stock market crash was precipitated by rampant speculation in the stock market, that the common denominator of all speculative episodes is the belief of participants that they can become rich without work [1] and that the tendency towards recurrent speculative orgy serves no useful purpose, but rather is deeply ...
The S&P 500 index is up nearly 17% year to date, and the Nasdaq composite is more than 30% higher. Americans keep spending money, unemployment is low, the Federal Reserve may soon pause its ...
During this time, most people believed that the decline was merely a bad recession, worse than the recessions that occurred in 1923 and 1927, but not as bad as the Depression of 1920–1921. Economic forecasters throughout 1930 optimistically predicted an economic rebound come 1931, and felt vindicated by a stock market rally in the spring of 1930.