stock market crash

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">As the twenties roared on, a market crash became inevitable. Why? And who should have stopped it?</span> </span></p>

<p>A Scottish émigré became the most powerful man in the French government, and sold hundreds of thousands of shares in land holdings in the Mississippi Valley</p>

<p><span class="deck">It took until late last year to undo the damage that Congress wreaked on the banking system in the 1930s.</span></p>

<p>Shortly after the author became Chairman of the Federal Reserve in 1987, the stock market plummeted 22 percent in one day.</p>