The Great Depression

Once Recession ended the GNP went up 7.9 percent in 1939. (Www.english.uiuc.edu) tells us that besides ruining many thousands of individual investors, this precipitous decline in the value of assets greatly strained banks and other financial institutions, particularly those holding stocks in their portfolios. Many banks were consequently forced into insolvency; by 1933, 11,000 of the United States' 25,000 banks had failed. The failure of so many banks, combined with a general and nationwide loss of confidence in the economy, led to much-reduced levels of spending and demand and hence of production, thus aggravating the downward spiral. “The result was drastically falling output and drastically rising unemployment; ... ... middle of paper ... ...its were contracting it; The Fed's inaction was the reason why the initial recession turned into a prolonged depression; The economy continually sank throughout Hoover's entire term.

The Great Depression was a huge economic downfall in North America and involved many other industrialized countries of the world. The Depression began in 1929 and lasted for about ten years. Millions of people lost their jobs along with many businesses going bankrupt. The common misconception of the Great Depression is people think that the stock market crash was the main cause for it. There were many causes for the Depression; unequal distribution of money during the 1920’s was the main cause of the Depression.

The Great Depression was a period of first-time decline in economic movement. It occurred between the years 1929 and 1939. It was the worst and longest economic breakdown in history. The Wall Street stock market crash started the Great Depression; it had terrible effects on the country (United States of America). When the stock market started failing many factories closed production of all types of good.

The Great Depression started on October 29, 1929, which is the day the stock market collapsed. This day is referred to as Black Tuesday. To the horrors of many people, this Depression lasted a full decade shocking everyone on how a once stabile economy can go from prosperity to nothing overnight. People have attributed the Great Depression as

The Stock Market crash caused the Great Depression by making investors and companies losing majority of their money. The stock market crash happened on October 29, 1929 and was caused by the trading and selling of 12.9 million stocks. The Great Depression lasted from 1929 to 1939 and was the worst economic crisis which caused many people to become unemployed, businesses, and banks started to close and fail. Also the depression challenged American people and families by putting them in economic and social issues. Millions of people and families lost their savings and many banks which failed in the duration of the

The effects of The Great Depression lasted for many years. The Great Depression started on a day in American and world history that was sindged into our hearts forever; October 29, 1929 (Black Tuesday). The Dow Jones Industrial average on the New York Stock Exchange fell 12% and caused many people to lose their invested money and assets. The Depression was felt worldwide as we saw nearly 35% of all jobs and trade lost during this period of time. At the depression’s peak, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 89% of its assets and value.

When the Great Depression reached its lowest point, almost half of America’s bank had closed and 13 to 15 million people were unemployed. In spite of the fact that the alleviation and change measures set up by President Franklin D. Roosevelt decreased the most exceedingly terrible impacts of the Great Depression in the 1930s, the economy would not completely pivot until after 1939, when World War II kicked American industry into high gear (Nelion; “The Great Depression (1929-1939)”). The Great Depression has bounteous causes, including the stock market crash on October 27, 1929 as well as everyone withdrawing their money from the banks after the stock market crash. Also contributing to the Great Depression was the uneven distribution of wealth in America. Consequently, the Great Depression also had bountiful social effects, along with effects on popular

The Great Depression was an economic problem in North America, Europe, and other industrialized countries around the world that began in 1929 and lasted until 1939. It was the longest and most stressing depression ever. The U.S. economy had gone into a depression six months earlier, but the Great Depression had begun with a breakdown of stock-market prices on the New York Stock Exchange in October 1929. The next three years stock prices in the United States had continued to drop, until 1932 it had dropped to about 20% of its value. Other than messing up thousands of individual investors, the decline in the value of good banks and other financial facilities went bad.

Thousands flocked to the banks to withdraw their money. With so much output, and so little input, banks nation-wide began failing. In the first eight months of 1930, seven hundred forty-four banks went under. During the 1920’s only one percent of the population owned forty percent of the nation’s wealth. But when the stock market crashed, the rich entrepreneurs, and the lower class citizens alike, lost everything, and the unemployment rates soared.

The nineteen-twenties is most commonly known because of the Great Depression., But in two thousand-eight, there was also a stock market crash, known as the sub-prime crash, along with the housing market falling a bit itself as well. Bet you did not even hear that, and if you did it probably was not much. Both of these major markets where a result of society’s careless spending habits. The self indulgence of the nineteen-twenties and the great depression affected the Instant gratification of the two thousands so much that it caused a relapse in history causing the stock market crash of two thousand and eight. The stock market is where you buy or sell stocks in a company.