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That's how we ended up with Great Depression. We don't want this to happen again.



The Great Depression had nothing to do with people being free to buy stocks. It was a classic bubble being burst, followed by counter-productive government measures to prevent prices/wages from deflating (which they needed to do as the money supply contracted):

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-08/uoc--hps0819...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123353276749137485




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