The Countdown Monday 21st October ● Ticker falls 1h40m behind 3rd greatest volume of trade in history Thursday 24th October (Black Thursday) ● Panic sets in as some sales find no buyers (air holes) ● 11 well-known speculators commit suicide ● 12h30 – the visitors' gallery of the Stock Exchange is closed ● The richest bankers meet and decide to pool their resources and buy ● Stocks recover as spare cash finds bargain shares. Ticker 2h late
Monday 28th October ● Slide to the bottom and no bankers' rescue Tuesday 29th October – ● Most devastating day in the history of Wall Street. Air holes everywhere ● A messenger boy buys a block of White Sewing Machine shares (previously 48$) for 1$ a share. ● The bankers start selling as well. ● Credit based on shares dries up – lack of liquidity
Clerks in downtown hotels ask clients if they want the room for sleeping or jumping.
Stocks lose 90% of their value over 4 years Times Industrials
November 13th 1929 Value: 224
October 28th 1929 Value: 28
US Steel
September 1929 Value : 262
July 1930 Value : 22
General Motors
September 1929 Value : 73
July 1930 Value : 8
Montgomery Ward (retail companies)
September 1929 Value : 138
July 1930 Value : 4
American Founders (investment trust)
September 1929 Value : 117
July 1930 Value : 0.70
The crash blighted the fortunes of many hundreds of thousands of Americans (13m unemployed)
The Great Depression 1930's
Why did it all happen?
Why did it all happen? Highly unequal income. The top 5% received 35% total income. By 1948 top 5 % less than 20 % ●
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The rich too rich to spend everything – spare cash to invest but speculation more profitable than investing in industry
Low interest rates ● stimulates the poor to use credit and consume ●
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The workers too poor to buy goods (NB Karl Marx!)
stimulates the rich to borrow to speculate
Bad banking structure – independent banks, lack of regulations
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