Thursday january 19

 

1.     What is pooling?

 rich people pushed up value of stocks and then they would sell, thus crashing

2.     What was the Federal Reserve Board’s take on the booming stock market?

 it was unstable. they looked down on it. thought it was reckless and dangerous

3.     What did the Federal Reserve Board do to prevent the crash?

 wanted to up interest rates. but they also knew that by doing that the gov would crash. they did nothing

4.     What did Charlie Mitchell and several other Wall Street tycoons try to do to stop the crash?

 

5.     What were the causes of the stick market crash based on the video?

 

 

Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world located on two continents

 

India has a Bill of Rights for cows

 

In the US, deaf people have safer driving records than people who CAN hear

 

In England, the Speaker of House is not allowed to speak

 

About 1 in 30 people in the US are in jail, on probation, or on parole

 

In New York City, approximately 1,600 people are bitten by other humans every year (so a zombie apocalypse isn’t so ridiculous after all…)

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