If you were to invest $10,000 in a good stock and get ... very little regulation of margin accounts, and that was a contributor to the crash that started the Great Depression,” says Victor ...

Photograph of a crowd of people gathered outside the New York Stock Exchange following ... Some people even bought shares “on the margin”, i.e. they borrowed money to buy shares and then ...

Excessive consumer debt and use of margin accounts ... on their loans. The stock market crash of 1929 was a cause, but not the sole driver, of the Great Depression. The 1929 crash served as ...