Much of the wealth created in the 1920s was on paper only, in the form of inflated stock values based on speculation. Students will respond to the following:
Give your opinion on whether or not the safeguards put in place to prevent another Great Depression, starting with the Roosevelt administration in the 1930s, can be effective today.
Compare the speculation of stock market investors in the Roaring Twenties to "house flippers" of the 2000s in terms of their motivations.
Compare the numbers and types of people who benefited from the frenzied trading on Wall Street in the 1920s with those who benefited from the race to home ownership in the late '90s and the 2000s.