The Great Depression was the biggest and longest economic failure in the history of America, all because of one problem leading to another. The first problem was that banks were tricking people into using credit just for their benefit of getting more money. Of course people took advantage of credit because they were able buy things they could not before. Businesses then became so desperate that they started over producing with the thought that people were going to buy their products. With businesses not getting the money they need from people purchasing with credit, stock markets soon crashed because nobody could afford anything anymore. That soon lead to unemployment because businesses were becoming bankrupt meaning thousands of people