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From October 29th, 1929 to April 4th, 2025: Are We Repeating the Past?

On Tuesday October 29th, 1929, commonly called Black Tuesday, the stock market tumbled, and continued to tumble. President Hoover said, just a glitch, markets go up and down, the “Roaring Twenties” will roar back. As the market continued to slide Hoover saw sharply increasing tariffs as a remedy, reversing the sliding economy the Smoot-Hawley tariffs,Continue reading “From October 29th, 1929 to April 4th, 2025: Are We Repeating the Past?”