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Dollars and Depressions
Episode five: the Wall Street crash of 1929 and the Great Depression
American historians give Christopher Cook their accounts of vital moments in the making of the United States.
Episode five: the Wall Street crash of 1929 and the Great Depression.
"This speculating euphoria had within itself, its own seeds of destruction, so when prices started to go down, that was a signal for everybody to say 'I've got to get out now!'" JK Galbraith.
麻豆社 World Service Archive
This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project
