The Stock Market In this paper I am going to discuss the 1929 stock market crash. First I will give a brief summary of the crash and then I will compare it to the stock market today. I will also give examples of how people today are more cautious with their money and what was learned from the Great Crash of 1929. On October 24, 1929, Black Thursday, the stock market took a sickening plunge and wiped out many …showed first 75 words of 529 total…

…showed last 75 words of 529 total…influences: a larger, wealthier middle class; a federal reserve that is more sophisticated in intervening to prevent an economic disaster; and policy-makers who understand the dynamics of international trade better. There is no definite answer whether a future crash might result in another depression as severe as the one in 1929. Government spokesmen and financial analysts assure us that there are too many safeguards built into the system to permit a repetition of the Great Depression.