While the October 1929 stock market crash triggered the Great Depression, multiple factors turned it into a decade-long economic catastrophe. Overproduction, executive inaction, ill-timed tariffs, and ...
The 1929 stock market crash, intensified isolationism, sky-high unemployment, and other compounding fiscal nightmares did not have the good times rolling in from 1929 to 1939, at least, not for most.