The Roaring Twenties and the Great Crash

Colin Read
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Chapter 18 in The Fear Factor, 2009, pp 151-155 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Art Deco, construction of the Empire State Building, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jazz, Babe Ruth, Ernest Hemingway, Charles Lindbergh, women’s suffrage, speakeasies, and the lost generation — these are things that defined the 1920s. A huge financial capital appreciation, popularization of the automobile, movies and radio, design of the DC-3 aircraft, and the wholesale creation of retail investment by the masses also characterized what we affectionately call the Roaring Twenties. This wild and revolutionary era came to a grinding halt on Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929.

Keywords: Retail Investment; Speculative Bubble; Perfect Storm; Price Earning Ratio; Empire State Building (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230250864_19

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