The Greatest Economic Disaster
The Great Depression of the 1930s was the greatest economic disaster the United States has ever experienced. The effects were lasting and far-reaching. Though there were multiple factors that contributed to this disaster, one underlies them all. The most contributing factor to the Great Depression was the rampant consumerism of the 1920s because this consumerism led to overproduction of goods, extensions of credit for people to purchase these goods, and speculative investments in stocks of the companies that produced those […]