The causes of the market crash is a twofold. Borrowing over 6 million dollars from speculators put the banks in severe debt, which in turn, inhibited ts customers from withdrawing their money. Secondly, numerous banks invested depositors’ money in the stock market, with the hopes of receiving a higher return so that they could use the money for future loans.
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The success of a market is contingent to the financial input of its current investors. New customers also play a fundamental role in the banks business, without them its impossible for the bank to branch out. The great crash of 1929 is the perfect archetype of all financial disasters because it exposed all of the holes in the American economy that needed to be patched. President Hoover did too little too late but President F.D. Roosevelt is credited with lasting reform in the banking system such as the FDIC.
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nodrama • May 22, 2014 at 12:02 pm
They could’v done a better job at handling their money but we learned from it and it only made this nation stronger.