Stock market crash of 1929

The Crash of '29 with the following '29-'32 recession.

In 1929 the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) declined 90.0% over a duration 34 months. Six successive market crashes comprised this famed crash:

• 1) between September to November 1929 (the DJIA fell 40% in this first phase);
• 2) from April to June 1930;
• 3) from September to December 1930;
• 4) from March to May 1931;
• 5) from July to January 1932;
• 6) from March to July 1932.

A new upswing in DJIA stocks then started immediately, as did a general business recovery.

Dow Jones index since 1925, in constant 2009 dollars

Business had topped out mildly, a month before the first crash; a gradual mild decline continued to April 1930, then fell sharply into a depression simultaneously with the end of the 1930 stock market rally. The business decline halted in December 1930, stayed level for 6 months, then plunged again in steep economic decline that didn’t lose its downward momentum for a full year, until July 1932. Business improved intermittently thereafter but still remained at depression levels through most of the decade of the 1930s except for a short recovery in 1936–37.

See Also

• Stock market crash of 1929
• Great Depression: Depression
• Financial Crisis of 2008
• Recession of 2008: Recession
• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
• Panic of 1907
• Panic of 1893
• Panic of 1837
• Financial crisis
• Economic collapse
• National debt: Federal Reserve System's Ponzi scheme
• John Maynard Keynes' liberal Keynesian economics versus conservative libertarian Austrian economics