The Great Crash, 1929 The Great Crash, 1929 The Great Crash, 1929 is a book written by John Kenneth Galbraith and published in 1955; it is an economic history of the lead-up to the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The book argues that the 1929 stock market crash was precipitated by rampant speculation in the stock market, that the common denominator of all speculative episodes is the belief of participants that they can become rich without work and that the tendency towards recurrent speculative orgy serves no useful purpose, but rather is deeply damaging to an economy. It was Galbraith's belief that a good
Wall Street Magnate and XML (AJAX) widgets, and a variety of information sources via RSS and XML feeds, which allow Wall Street Magnate to efficiently process and manage large amounts of data. The idea for Wall Street Magnate was conceived by a lawyer, Lewis Schlossberg, and a stock-trader, Laurence Cohen, in November 2010 after watching The Social Network. It was incorporated in February 2011 and remained in beta for one year while college students held competitions on the site. In May 2013, Wall Street Magnate officially released its platform and made it available to the public. In July 2014, Wall Street Magnate released