Episode 121 - Crashing

Today the United States miniseries goes out with the bang of the 1929 stock market crash. It was a confluence of bad decisions, inaction, greed, and terrible timing all coming together to create the great economic crisis of our times.    Bibliography for this episode:    Galbraith, James K. The Great Crash 1929 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company 2009 Hall, Thomas E. and J. David Ferguson The Great Depression: An International Disaster of Perverse Economic Policies University of Michigan Press 1998 Miller, Nathan New World Coming: The 1920s and the Making of Modern America Da Capo Press 2003 Robert E. Gallman The Cambridge Economic History of the United States Volume III: The Twentieth Century Cambridge University Press 2000 Whyte, Kenneth Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times Vintage Books 2017   Questions? Comments? Email me at [email protected]