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America’s “Roaring Twenties”: everything you wanted to know

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Why Did the Boom Happen?

There were a couple of reasons why the twenties boom happened. They really had a technological revolution that was akin to ours. One answer could be summed up in two words, which is henry ford. The stock market was not regulated it was radically unregulated. And so what they thought was a boom turned out to be a bubble. It was actually driven by speculation and alot of it was driven by swindling and fraud.

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