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 Survivor Wall Street Survivor Wall Street Survivor is an educational website that teaches people the basic of finances. It uses gamification to teach concepts of the stock market, investing, and general financial planning. The website has been seen in publications which include "Business Insider", TechCrunch, "The Globe and Mail", and "Forbes". Wall Street Survivor was originally launched as a stock investing game which allowed users to invest in stocks using fake money. The current version was launched as an add-on to the site in 2012 and presented at the Finovate in San Francisco, California the same year. The website was gamified