Causes of the Great Depression Understanding the Economic Collapse of 1929.

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Causes of the Great Depression Understanding the Economic Collapse of 1929

Causes of the Great Depression The Short List 1920S Prosperity (False or otherwise) Republican Policies The Business Cycle Excessive Speculation (The Crash goes here) A Banking Crisis and Panic

1920s Prosperity: Some Say False GNP rose 40% Industrial production doubled Construction boom: beginnings of suburbia Electrification 1902: 2% of U.S. power from electricity 1929: 80% 1907: fewer than one in ten homes 1929: 2/3 have it

1920s Prosperity Consumer Economy Chain stores 16% of national retail business 30,000 to 160,000 chains in the 1920s A&P, J.C. Penny, Woolworths

1920s Prosperity Automobile sales 1900: 4, : 4,800,000 Ford Model T

Changes Wrought by Automobiles Changed landscape Stimulated other industries: oil, steel, glass, rubber Highway construction: Federal Road Act of 1916 Use of Credit 60% of all car purchases 75% of radios

Republican Economic Policies High Tariffs: Return to protectionism Fordney-McCumber (1922) Highest rate to that time President authorized to raise rates still further Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act (1930) Highest in U.S. History 1000 economists signed petition against it

Republican Economic Policies: Tax Cuts Sec. of Treasury Andrew Mellon: Revenue Acts of 1921, 1924, and 1926 all reduced tax rates 73% to 58% in % in % in % in % in 1929 The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business.

Republican Economic Policies Non-enforcement of anti-trust laws Business-friendly appointments to FTC, ICC Encouraged mergers and over production 6000 mergers, Effective monopolies in aluminum, salt, sugar, tropical fruit Oligopolies in oil, steel, glass, cement, copper, tobacco, meatpacking – even bread and milk!

Easy Money Low Interest Rates Fed loaned at 3.5% Expanded use of credit Speculation Charles Mitchell of National City Bank: "I know of nothing fundamentally wrong with the stock market." (Oct. 21, 1929) Buying on margin Goldman Sachs investment trusts: 50% margin trading at 5% interest $19 billion in stock w/ only $3 billion in assets

Easy Money Big business in America today is producing what socialists had as their goal; food clothing and shelter food all.

The Business Cycle The United States Business Cycle,

How Bad Was It?

The Business Cycle Unregulate d capitalism is prone to boom and bust

The Business Cycle

Stock Market Crash (speculation) Speculation drives market higher and higher Banks: $6,000,000,000 in loans to stockbrokers Sep. 3 Dow high of 381 Sep. 6 Babson break - market became erratic Roger Babson, economist and father of economic forecasting September 5th, 1929: "Sooner or later a crash is coming, and it may be terrific". Later that day the stock market declined by about 3%.

Stock Market Crash (speculation) Oct J.P. Morgan buys to stop price decline Oct panic selling began million shares (some say Black Thursday) Oct "Black Tuesday" million shares $14,000,000,000 in losses Prices decline to Dow low (from 381) on July 8, 1932

The Banking Crisis Banks caught up in speculative wave Loaned $6 billion to brokers Federal Reserve (the Fed) didnt act until too late, then overreacted

The Banking Crisis

The Money Supply

The Ripple Effect: Unemployment Year Number% 19291,550, ,340, ,020, ,060, ,830,

Unemployment High (or low, depending on POV) was 25% Toledo and Akron, Ohio: 60-80% 100,000 jobs lost every week (avg), ,000 families evicted in NYC in 1931

International Conditions Dawes Plan/Young Plan The Dawes Plan: 1924 Lowered German reparations payments to GBR and France U.S. would loan $$ to Germany GBR AND France could repay war debts to U.S. The Young Plan: 1929 Reparations lowered again to $26,350,000,000 to be paid over a period of 58½ years New U.S. loans to finance

Dawes Plan/Young Plan

International Conditions Excessive loss of life and destruction of WWI: No full economic recovery ever happened internationally Dislocation of Trade: Never reached pre levels USSR: A closed society and economy

The Hoover Response Used depression instead of panic Made optimistic statements in public Conference w/ business leaders: dont lay off Some public works $$ to states Rugged Individualism Depression Deepens

The Hoover Response Hoovervilles

The Hoover Response

: Hoover Acts more forcefully 6000 banks had failed by ,000 business failures Depression clearly worldwide event The Hoover Program $2.25 Billion in public works Federal Farm Board: subsidize agriculture Reconstruction Finance Corporation: $500 million to business; borrowed $1.5 billion more Raised taxes to compensate/balance budget Norris-LaGuardia Act: no injunctions against labor Vetoed Norris-Muscle Shoals Bill (later TVA)

The Hoover Response ,060, ,830,

The Election of 1932 Deceptive platforms Democrats Active aid to the unemployed 25% cut in federal spending Repeal Prohibition Lower tariff Republicans Balanced budget Gold Standard Public Confidence

1918: Hoover Feeds Belgium 1932: Migrant Mom Worries

The Realignment of 1932 Red States v. Blue States

The Realignment of 1932 See the map! The New Deal Coalition: Modern Liberalism African Americans Urban America, esp. NE Organized Labor Farmers Solid South (until 1968)

The Realignment of 1932 Whats Left for Republicans? Not Much: Democrats win every presidential election from except 1952/56 Republican strongholds Big Business Small Town America Social/Fiscal Conservatives

The New Deal Campaign Slogan in 1932 No ideology at first: Experimentation Becomes synonymous with liberalism