Great Depression: Great Depression - Causes

Big time stock market players:

• Jesse Livermore - Wall Street insider

• Michael Meehan -  Stock specialist

• Charles Mitchell -  President of National City Bank (Citibank)

• William Durant - "King of the Bulls" and General Motors founder
  

These men amassed their fortunes by buying and selling stocks, thereby manipulating the stock market.

• agricultural overproduction
• industrial overproduction
• income disparity
• easy credit
• unemployment
• worldwide depression
• high tariffs
• natural disasters