By 11:00 a.m on October 24, 1929, the The New York Stock Exchange had started to plunge. A group of powerful bankers met secretly next door to the Exchange and pledged to spend $240 million of their own funds to stabilize the market. This strategy failed. Do you see a correlation between 1929 and 2008? Tags: great depression, october 24 1929, stock market crash

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