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Financial Collapse
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The Stock Market Crashes
In 1929, there was optimism about an economic boom in the United States. People began to buy stocks on margin to get in on the boom.
Buying on margin: Paying a small percentage of a stock's price as a down payment and borrowing the rest from a stockbroker. This system worked as long as stocks were rising.
The bad parts of this are if stocks falls. Therefore, investors have no money to pay off the loan.
Stock prices were unnaturally high, and people began to sell stocks because they figured that the prices would go down. However, it started going down really fast, and no one wanted to buy. Everyone would just sell stocks. This led to a market collapse.
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