Catalog Advanced Search
4 items were found using the following search criteria
-
The "Roaring ’20s" and the Crash of 1929
Bruner, Robert F.; Miller, ScottCase DARDEN-F-1908-EFinanceIn April 1930, US Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon reviewed recent stock market events as he prepared to enter a meeting of the Federal Reserve Board, which he chaired. In September and October 1929, the US stock market had fallen about a third, and then recovered somewhat. In response to the turmoil, the Federal Reserve (Fed) had lowered the discount rate in five steps from 6% to 3.71%, and market rates of interest across a range of debt securit...Starting at €8.20
-
1918 -1932: The International Great Depression (B)
Bruner, Robert F.Case DARDEN-F-1903-EFinanceIn this B case, the actual events of the 1933 World Economic Conference are summarized, along with the actions and intentions of newly elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and reactions by the domestic press and the international community. It also includes the text of his remarks to the conference.Starting at €5.74
-
1918 -1932: The International Great Depression (A)
Bruner, Robert F.Case DARDEN-F-1902-EFinanceIn May 1932, US president Herbert Hoover and British prime minister Ramsay MacDonald called for leaders from 65 nations to attend the World Economic Conference, scheduled to occur in the winter of 1933 after the American presidential election. Hoover turned his attention to the instructions he would have to give to the American delegation about the forthcoming conference. Arguments by pundits, critics, and Hoover’s advisers fell into at least thr...Starting at €8.20
-
1930-1933: The Great Depression and the End of “Orthodoxy” (A)
Bruner, Robert F.Case DARDEN-F-1904-EFinanceIn February 1933, President Herbert Hoover reviewed the past four years of his administration. He had met a stock market crash and a recession that worsened into the Depression with actions out of the playbook of Republican “orthodoxy”: balanced budgets, tax reduction, protectionism, and community relief based on volunteerism. Yet as the Depression deepened, Hoover pivoted toward policies that pushed the limits of his own philosophy: debt financi...Starting at €8.20