1. A Cross-Curricular Analysis
The Great Depression
A Cross-Curricular Analysis

2. GDP - Gross Domestic Product
Market value of all goods and services produced

3. A rise in the general price of goods and services over time….
Inflation
A rise in the general price of goods and services over time…. Or
A decrease in the purchasing power of money caused by too much money chasing too few goods and services.

4. Deflation
A decrease in the general price level of goods and services – below 0% inflation.

5. CPI - Consumer Price Index
The CPI measures changes in the price level of consumer goods and services purchased by households.

6. The Gold Standard
A monetary system in which gold does not circulate but in which the government agrees to sell gold at a fixed price in exchange for the circulating currency. In the US, that fixed price was 40%.

7. What started it
And
Why did it continue?

10. Numbers of Banks and Bank Suspensions
Year
Number as of 12-31
Suspensions
1929
24,633
659
1930
22,773
1350
1931
19,970
2293
1932
18,397
1453
1933
15,015
4000
1934
16,096 57
Data are from Banking and Monetary Statistics, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1943, pages 18 and 283.

19. The New Deal - Did it work? Banking Act of 1933 (Glass-Stegall)
SEC Acts of 1933 and 1934
Banking Act of 1933 (Glass-Stegall)

20. CCC- Civilian Conservation Corps

21. What finally pulled us out?

26. Lessons It’s a worldwide problem.
The best solution is to keep it from happening.
Money flow is essential.