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  2. Great Depression - Wikipedia

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    1928 and 1929 were the times in the 20th century that the wealth gap reached such skewed extremes; [243] half the unemployed had been out of work for over six months, something that was not repeated until the late-2000s recession. 2007 and 2008 eventually saw the world reach new levels of wealth gap inequality that rivalled the years of 1928 ...

  3. Great Depression in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The American economist Charles P. Kindleberger of long-term studying of the Great Depression pointed out that in the 1929, before and after the collapse of the stock market, the Fed lowered interest rates, tried to expand the money supply and eased the financial market tensions for several times; however, they were not successful.

  4. Wall Street crash of 1929 - Wikipedia

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    The Dow Jones Industrial Average, 1928–1930. The "Roaring Twenties", the decade following World War I that led to the crash, [4] was a time of wealth and excess.Building on post-war optimism, rural Americans migrated to the cities in vast numbers throughout the decade with hopes of finding a more prosperous life in the ever-growing expansion of America's industrial sector.

  5. 1929 in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Eilaine Roth, American professional baseball player (d. 2011) Elaine Roth, American professional baseball player (d. 2007) January 19 – Red Amick, American race car driver (d. 1995) January 20. Jimmy Cobb, American jazz drummer (d. 2020) Arte Johnson, American comedian and actor (d. 2019) Frank Kush, American football player and coach (d. 2017)

  6. Causes of the Great Depression - Wikipedia

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    The Great Depression: Delayed Recovery and Economic Change in America, 1929–1939 (1989) focus on low-growth and high-growth industries; Bordo, Michael D., Claudia Goldin, and Eugene N. White, eds. The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century (1998). Advanced economic history. Chandler, Lester.

  7. Warren Buffett believes the vast wealth gap in America is due ...

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    This, he says, has caused the wealth gap with many people barely getting by while others thrive. “It was an agrarian economy a couple hundred years ago,” he said in an interview with CNN.

  8. Truth behind the Donald Trump quote from 1998 that's rapidly ...

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    Credit: The Other 98%. In the quote, Trump calls voters the "dumbest group of voters in the country." He continued, saying that they'd believe anything Fox broadcasts.

  9. Timeline of the Great Depression - Wikipedia

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    The initial decline lasted from mid-1929 to mid-1931. During this time, most people believed that the decline was merely a bad recession, worse than the recessions that occurred in 1923 and 1927, but not as bad as the Depression of 1920–1921. Economic forecasters throughout 1930 optimistically predicted an economic rebound come 1931, and felt ...