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Roaring Of The Banks In The 1930's

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The "roaring" 20's allowed the banks to make a lot of money, so they invested it in expanding the business. When the economic prosperity of the 1920's was flooded with all the stocks people were buying, the system didn't have enough money in it to continue. It was only a matter of time before total economy failure, the stock market crash just sped it up. Everyone went to the banks for their money so they could pay their debts, but the citizens didn't know the banks used the people's money for investments, and lost all the money in the stock market crash. One by one the banks began to fail. During the first 10 months of 1930, 744 banks failed. In all, 9000 banks failed during the 1930's. No one was confident about buying things anymore, which

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