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
Clancy in Wall Street MacIntosh, refuses to get involved. Clancy makes a fortune, leaves his business, and crashes high society, ignoring his old friend, and urging his daughter, Katie, to reject MacIntosh's son in favor of Freddie Saunders. Then the stock market crashes. Clancy in Wall Street Clancy in Wall Street is a 1930 American Pre-Code comedy film. it stars Charles Murray, who had made a number of films for Edward Small. It was also known as "Clancy Caught Short" and was described as the first comedy about the stock market crash. It was the last film for director Ted Wilde, who had died