The author included the information about 1920 and 1925 because that was the time the U.S economy expanded rapidly, The Roaring Twenties. Until 1925 there wasn’t legal requirement to separate the operations of commercial and investment banks, the investment banking was consisted of <em>JP Morgan & Co, Kuhn, Loeb & Co, Brown Brothers and Kindder, Peabody & Co</em>. Their funds could be used to fund the underwriting business of the investment baking side.
In 1929 everyone was putting their savings into stocks, not only the wealth part but the poor part too and because of that the stock market reached the peak in August 1929. But than the production declined causing unemployment and with that the stock prices were much higher than their actual value. The economy was struggling, the debt was rising and the banks had and excess of large loans that couldn’t be liquidated.
In the 1930s over 9,000 banks failed because people didn’t trusted them to put their saving. The Great Depression the official unemployment rate was 25% and the stock marked declined 75% since 1929. But in 1933 now with Rooselvet’s administration he took immediate action about the economic woes first announcing that all banks would close, Bank Holiday. The Congress would pass reform legislation and reopen the banks. In “<em>first 100 days</em>” Roosevelt’s administration stabilized the industrial and agricultural production and created jobs and also created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to protect depositors’ accounts and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to regulate the stock market and prevent what happened in 1929.
The big change between the crises in the 20s and 30s were all about who was in charge, President Hebert Hoover didn’t take much lead about the crises but Roosevelt did.
The answer is trade rights
Here are 8 reasons why Rome fell as an Empire. Turn them into challenges for your answer:
1. <span>Invasions by Barbarian tribes;
2. </span><span>Economic troubles and overreliance on slave labor;
3. </span><span>The rise of the Eastern Empire;
4. </span><span>Overexpansion and military overspending;
5. </span><span>Government corruption and political instability;
6. </span><span>The arrival of the Huns and the migration of the Barbarian tribes;
7. The spread of </span><span>Christianity and the loss of traditional values;
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8. </span>Weakening of the Roman legions: <span>Rome’s military was the envy of the ancient world. But during the decline, the makeup of the once mighty legions began to change. Unable to recruit enough soldiers from the Roman citizenry, emperors like Diocletian and Constantine began hiring foreign mercenaries to prop up their armies. The ranks of the legions eventually swelled with Germanic Goths and other barbarians, so much so that Romans began using the Latin word “barbarus” in place of “soldier.” While these Germanic soldiers of fortune proved to be fierce warriors, they also had little or no loyalty to the empire, and their power-hungry officers often turned against their Roman employers. In fact, many of the barbarians who sacked the city of Rome and brought down the Western Empire had earned their military stripes while serving in the Roman legions.
These are taken from History Stories, by Evan Andrews January 14, 2018.</span>
