9the Crash … and Beyond It is common to think of the Roaring Twenties as a distinct period in history, bounded on one end by World War I (1914–18) and on the other by the stock market crash and the Great Depression (1929–41), the...

United States 1929 The 1920s are often generalized as a decade of post-war affluence and good times. In reality, however, there was great economic disparity worldwide, which was one of many economic and political factors that precipitated the Great...

Information concerning the stock market fills American daily newspapers and television reports. With so many Americans belonging to pension plans and other long-term investment programs, stock market shifts touch more people now than ever before. When...

A fall of 20 per cent or more in the index of a leading stock...

A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a significant cross-section of a stock market. Crashes are driven by panic as much as by underlying economic factors. They often follow speculative stock market bubbles. Stock...