Thursday, October 24th, 1929 has the incredulous honor being called Black Thursday. It was on this day that the New York Stock Exchange crashed, and with it ended the “Roaring Twenties”, and initiated the Great Depression. It has been widely speculated in books and magazines, but what really happened on that day? What events led up to the fateful day? What were some warning signs, and what could be done to have stopped it? In the 1920…showed first 75 words of 597 total…

…showed last 75 words of 597 total…greed and folly. Bibliography 1. Bose, Mihir The Crash, 1988, Bloomsbury Publishing Limited, London 2. Kamphuis, Robert W. Black Monday and the Future of Financial Markets, 1987, Dow Jones-Irwin, Inc., Homewood, Illinois 3. White, Eugene N. Stock Market Crashes and Speculative Manias, 1996, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Cheltenham 4. Wigmore, Barrie A. The Crash and Its Aftermath, 1985, Greenwood Press, Connecticut 1. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=71564 2. http://www.lowrisk.com/crash/1929crash2.htm 3. http://mypage.direct.ca/r/rsavill/Thecrash.html