The Stock Market Crash Of 1929 (3)
The stock market crash of 1929 was one of the most devastating events in American history. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained six-tenths of a percent during the calendar year 1987. This was the time of the great depression, in a decade that preceded World War 2. The Dow was only able to return to its pre 1929 levels after 25 years. The New Deal was the remedy to the Great Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression that followed. The selling became intense on Monday, October 23, and the market fell 6.3{606b15cb8282e5ec3580d0e72c193589ece6551be175750a8e347f0d91362e12}. By October 24, Black Thursday , the selling frenzy reached a critical mass and turned to flat-out panic. One purchaser-reportedly a messenger boy-bought a block of the stock for $1 a share. In the 1920s, the overall attitude was that the stock market could keep its bull market indefinitely. From the chart above we may see the …