Episode 121 - Crashing

<p>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. </p> <p> </p> <p>Bibliography for this episode: </p> <p> </p> <ol><li>Galbraith, James K. The Great Crash 1929 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company 2009</li> <li>Hall, Thomas E. and J. David Ferguson The Great Depression: An International Disaster of Perverse Economic Policies University of Michigan Press 1998</li> <li>Miller, Nathan New World Coming: The 1920s and the Making of Modern America Da Capo Press 2003</li> <li>Robert E. Gallman The Cambridge Economic History of the United States Volume III: The Twentieth Century Cambridge University Press 2000</li> <li>Whyte, Kenneth Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times Vintage Books 2017</li> </ol><p> </p> <p>Questions? Comments? Email me at <a href='mailto:peaceintheirtime@gmail.com'>peaceintheirtime@gmail.com</a></p>