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World Service,18 Nov 1993,27 mins

Dollars and Depressions

Making America

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American historians give Christopher Cook their accounts of vital moments in the making of the United States. Episode five: the Wall Street crash of 1929 and the Great Depression. "This speculating euphoria had within itself, its own seeds of destruction, so when prices started to go down, that was a signal for everybody to say 'I've got to get out now!'" JK Galbraith.

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