The Great Depression, 1929-1940

Stock Market Crash (1929)

Distribution of Income & Wealth
      -Andrew Mellon
      -Trickle Down Economics

Foreign Trade Balances

Holding Companies

Speculation
      -Buying on Margin

Herbert Hoover
      -Overproduction
      -Voluntary Associationalism

Reconstruction Finance Corporation (1932)
Emergency Relief and Construction Act (1932)  


 

 

  
Stock Market Prices, 1920-1929

  
     The Great Depression

   
     A Hooverville near Seattle

   
  1,000,000 Deutschmarks, 1923