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  2. 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.

  3. Depression of 1920–1921 - Wikipedia

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    One of the biggest adjustments was the re-entry of soldiers into the civilian labor force. In 1918, the Armed Forces employed 2.9 million people. This fell to 1.5 million in 1919 and 380,000 by 1920. The effects on the labor market were most striking in 1920, when the civilian labor force increased by 1.6 million people, or 4.1%, in a single year.

  4. Timeline of the Great Depression - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. The Great Crash, 1929 - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  6. The Dow performed the best and worst under these presidents - AOL

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    The performance of the volatile stock market typically has little to do with the president who's in office. Even when a president does manage to produce effective economic policies, he's usually ...

  7. Closing milestones of the Dow Jones Industrial Average

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    5 This was the Dow's close at the peak of the 1920s bull market on Tuesday, September 3, 1929 before the stock market crash. This level would not be seen again until Tuesday, November 23, 1954, more than 25 years later. 6 This was the Dow's close at the peak of March 10, 1937. 7 This was the Dow's close at the peak on February 9, 1966.

  8. How the stock market performed under each president - AOL

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    The stock market was almost impressive in its stagnancy during Carter's term. It finished just 1.25 percent higher than it started — the smallest change since Taft's 0.56% decline. That small ...

  9. List of stock market crashes and bear markets - Wikipedia

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    Souk Al-Manakh stock market crash: Aug 1982 Kuwait: Black Monday: 19 Oct 1987 USA: Infamous stock market crash that represented the greatest one-day percentage decline in U.S. stock market history, culminating in a bear market after a more than 20% plunge in the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average. Among the primary causes of the chaos ...