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The Day America Crashed: A Narrative Account of the Great Stock Market Crash of October 24, 1929. New York: G.P. Putnam. ISBN 0399116133. Thomas, Gordon and Morgan-Witts, Max (1979). The Day the Bubble Burst: A Social History of the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Garden City, New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0385143702; Watkins, Tom H. (1993).
In the United States, self-defenestration is among the least common methods of dying by suicide (less than 2% of all reported suicides in the United States for 2005). [8] There is an urban legend in the US that many Wall Street investors autodefenestrated during the 1929 stock market crash. [23]
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:1929 deaths. It includes 1929 deaths that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. People who committed suicide and events and topics involving suicide(s) in the year 1929 .
I've been in the Library of Congress lately reading financial newspapers from the week of the October, 1929 stock market crash that ultimately crushed the Dow Jones by nearly 90%. Last week, I ...
The stock market crash on Black Tuesday and subsequent economic turmoil reified the formerly abstract risks endemic to the 1920s mortgage market: borrowers could no longer afford even moderate monthly payments and the recompense afforded by foreclosure on a lien did little to ameliorate many institutions' financial standing: between 1928 and 1933, home prices declined by nearly 25.9% ...
Nothing is more appealing to stock market investors than the idea that they can predict the future. Recently, several market analysts have argued that the Dow Jones Industrials is setting itself ...
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It is an economic history of the lead-up to the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The book argues that the 1929 stock market crash was precipitated by rampant speculation in the stock market, that the common denominator of all speculative episodes is the belief of participants that they can become rich without work [1] and that the tendency towards ...