First we got a new seating chart. Then we went through blog discussion.
Stocks
-Stocks-Investers putting money in a company to expand and grow
-in the 20's the stock market went up
-Stock market- where people would buy stocks
-Margin buying- buying stocks on credit (borrowing money then buying stocks)
-Stock Speculator- playing the stock market to make money
-By the 1920 the middle class was not making a lot of money and were in debt
How the Stock Market went down
-People were buying lost of stocks on margin
-Then people would sell the stocks
-September 1929 the stock was at its peak then droped
-October Black tuesday lots of stocks were sold to avoid debt
-Banks would close because stock brokers had no money, becuase the people that bought stocks didnt have the money to give to the stock brokers
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