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The causes of the great depression.

Date Submitted: 09/06/2004 02:50:57
Length: 4 pages (973 words)
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"What goes up must also come down" -Newton's Law of Gravity Although they appear to be unrelated, the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and these words are closely connected. Following the laws of universal acceleration, gravity causes an object to achieve higher speeds when dropped from larger distances. With these high speeds, a greater force is achieved. The market crash resembles this due to the fact that a high economic level was reached compared to the …

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…high demand created. (Doc 11) The stockholders started selling, and with them the speculative market crashed, and everyone soon bailed out, causing the crash and starting the Great Depression. Income misdistribution led to the popularity of speculation and installment buying, which both caused overproduction leading to the crash. All of these factors together caused the big picture, the Great Depression. The Depression was really always there, it was just bottled up and strengthened within invisible money.

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