Here are warning signs investors missed before the 1929 crash
Here are warning signs investors missed before the 1929 crash
- December 20, 2018
- Gary Richardson, economics, via History, Dec. 20, 2018
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Gary Richardson, an economics professor at the University of California Irvine and a former historian for the Federal Reserve, has researched the Fed’s role in the 1929 crash and the ensuing Great Depression. … “People could see in 1928 and 1929 that if stock prices kept going up at the current rate, in a few decades they’d be astronomic,” says Richardson. The question was less about whether the meteoric stock market rise was going to end, but how it would end.
For the full story, please visit https://www.history.com/news/1929-stock-market-crash-warning-signs.
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