Great Depression by Jesse Villalobos https://padlet.com/jjvillalobos0404/greatdepression Made with the help of a typing monkey en-us 2018-04-05 00:13:25 UTC 2018-04-05 00:24:36 UTC hello@padlet.com Speculative Stock jjvillalobos0404 https://padlet.com/jjvillalobos0404/greatdepression/wish/248709537 stock that is high risk but may offer very high reward. This type of stock is usually low in price which means that investors/ speculators can buy hundreds and even thousands of stock. If the company does well the stock will go up and make the investors a lot of money. ]]> 2018-04-05 00:17:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jjvillalobos0404/greatdepression/wish/248709537 Bank Failures jjvillalobos0404 https://padlet.com/jjvillalobos0404/greatdepression/wish/248709703 The banks didn’t have the money because they were practicing speculation. The bank would lend money to people so they could buy stocks. The issue was that when everyone began withdrawing their money it forced the banks to liquidate loans which ultimately led to failure.]]> 2018-04-05 00:18:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jjvillalobos0404/greatdepression/wish/248709703 Fed Monetary Policy jjvillalobos0404 https://padlet.com/jjvillalobos0404/greatdepression/wish/248709827 Fed- established in 1913 due to a series of financial panics to have central control of the monetary system to alleviate financial crisis. 
Monetary policy- is the management of money supply and interest rate it is used by the government of  country to achieve inflation, consumption, growth and liquidity.

]]> 2018-04-05 00:18:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jjvillalobos0404/greatdepression/wish/248709827 Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act jjvillalobos0404 https://padlet.com/jjvillalobos0404/greatdepression/wish/248709971 raised tariffs extremely high to decrease the amount of imports by foreign countries, foreign countries responded by raising their own tariffs which resulted in an extreme decrease in world trade which further worsened the economic recession. 

]]> 2018-04-05 00:19:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jjvillalobos0404/greatdepression/wish/248709971 Dust Bowl jjvillalobos0404 https://padlet.com/jjvillalobos0404/greatdepression/wish/248710073 From 1930-1936 the United States plains areas suffered from a drought that would make the soil which was over planted and poorly maintained worse than ever. This dry soil would turn into dust bowls, which were caused by high winds carrying this soil across fields with little or no crops.]]> 2018-04-05 00:20:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jjvillalobos0404/greatdepression/wish/248710073