Posts Tagged ‘great depression’
Bye-Bye- Barney
Bid farewell to Barney the Dinosaur. No, the purple guy isn’t leaving TV, I’m talking about the pink one leaving Congress. Barney has a legacy, indeed. He managed to take that political slogan from the 20th Century Great Depression “A chicken for every pot” and elevate it to “A house for every body!” In the process he, with the help of Chris Dodd, has managed almost single-handedly to bring on the 21st Century Great Depression. We are well on our way down that slide ... Full Story
On This Day, October 29, 1929
Oct 29, 1929: Stock market crashes Black Tuesday hits Wall Street as investors trade 16,410,030 shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors, and stock tickers ran hours behind because the machinery could not handle the tremendous volume of trading. In the aftermath of Black Tuesday, America and the rest of the industrialized world spiraled downward into the Great Depression. During the 1920s, the U.S. stock market ... Full Story
