Posted by 5whitneyyy on January 15, 2010 at 11:55am
Today we continued the video.- Painting the tape meant that they made the stock market look good.- The government did not take responsablity.- The market was going down and down and down.- Everyone wanted to sell everything they had.- No one would bu
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We started class with the video from yesterday.2. Story of the SMC? (continued from yesterday)---Thursday, the first black thursday. In the morning, the stock market took a terrific tumble. The market opened in a free fall. Some people couldn't get a
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Posted by 4Austin K on January 15, 2010 at 11:55am
Todya Mr. Bruns just talked and cleared up any questions that we had about his class or our website. He also told us that our Big blog discussion is about something interesting in Ch. 15. We have to pick it, blog about it, talk about it, and have two
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Today we watched a videoCauses--- steel production down, car sales down, poor getting poorer, easy credit put many in debt. the stock had its own momentuem.Story of SMC--- a big boom based on credit, with a smaller crash stopped by a big business man
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Today in class we finished the movie and did our daily blog.1. Causes2. Story of SMC3. What is Pooling?4. What did the Federal Reserve Board do?1. People were buying things that they didn’t really have to have.People took loans from the bank and they
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Posted by 4Austin K on January 15, 2010 at 11:49am
Today in class, we found out we are going to have an early out!! We also went over classroom rules and expecations.Mr bruns gave us our Big Blog topic which is Causes of the Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression. We are not suppossed to talk to
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Today was blog discussion day. We went around the room and discussed the causes and some effects of the stock market crash. This lead into the causes of the Great depression. Mr. Bruns showed some overheads that help explain the causes of the stock m
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Today we finished watching the movie of the stock market crash.1. Massive fraud and illegal activity, uneven distribution of wealth of people, buying on margin, cars weren’t getting sold,2. The stocks were dropping and it got fixed by people starting
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11 days til my day of birth!its finally friday, im pretty excited that the weekend is here (:CRASH OF 1929what goes up, must come down.-more causesbuying on margincar sales droppedeveryonne wanted to sell,-story of the stock market crashit was a craz
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Posted by 4Austin K on January 15, 2010 at 11:09am
Today, we watched the Crash of 1929. We took notes and Mr. Bruns warned us about loosing our blogs online and then start typing them on word and copy and paste it into the internet.We continued watching a movie today called "The Crash of 1929," it's
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Today we watched the viedo again.The crash of 1929 videowhat caused the crash?buying on credit, the federal reserve system raised interest rates, uneven wealth between people, companies were not making money, buying stocks on credit,overspeculation d
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Today we continued watching the fun exciting movie.It talked about how people lost a lot of money because they invested in stocks and then the stocks failed and they lost some of their money. It talked aobut a guy that warned people that he thought t
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The Crash of 1929Are there anymore causes that the video lists that we did not talk about?people were super optimistic about everything,What is the story of the crash?5 days before the crash lamont wrote a letter to hoover saying how wonderful thingsRead more…
The Crash of 1929 Video:1. Are there anymore causes that the video lists?2. What is the basic story of the Stock Market Crash?3. What is pooling?The rich people would buy out a cheap stock to make the price of the stock go up. They'd pay off newspape
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Posted by 4Courtney on January 15, 2010 at 11:09am
watching a video.The crash of 1929.1.Causes:People was buying to much things, they really didn't need.People took loans out and couldn't pay them back.2.The story of the stock market crash.People that lost a lot of money and buinesses. This made peop
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Posted by 4Austin K on January 15, 2010 at 11:00am
Today we talked about how all of our blogs are graded and how they are worth 20 points for daily blogs and disscussions are worth ten points. For the big Blogs we need two pictures and for little blogs we just have to state what we did in class. If y
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Margin Buying; margin buying is another scapegoat for t e cause of the Crash. however, it is not the main reason because there was very little margin outstanding relative to the value of the somethin.Effects of the stock market crash-cause of Great D
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