The stock market is very much like legalized gambling. Anybody can place bets by buying and selling stocks. In the stock market the goal is to buy a stock at the lowest price possible and when it is at its highest price possible,to sell it. Stock is purchased and sold through stockbrokers who in turn tell individuals on the stock market floor to buy or sell a stock, much like an auction. When stocks …showed first 75 words of 970 total…

…showed last 75 words of 970 total…a great time of prosperity. No longer were peoples’ lives going to be worried free. The crash helped spur the greatest economic depression in United States history. Instead of worrying about how much money they were going to make on the market, people were soon going to be worried about if they were going to have enough money to feed themselves. The stock market, much like gambling, has and always will make and break fortunes.