Stock Market Crash of 1929 - Kevin Smith, How the Stock Market Works

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Many people had been using stocks as collateral for loans they had taken out at banks, so when the stock value dropped, the banks would often ask people and businesses to repay their loans, causing a massive wave of bankruptcies. This is how the crash in stock prices spread to the economy as a whole.

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