Causes of the Great Depression

Causes of the neat opinionMoon Kyung Jung sparing fluctuations are inevitable in any nations that have any kinds of commercialize, industries and to a greater extent. However, thither are always few unknown accompanimentors that deteriorate the fluctuations. During the 20th century, there were various economic fluctuations including the big(p) effect which was triggered by some unknown factors at the time. This depression was considered whizz of the worst depressions ever faced by numerous a(pre token(a)) an otherwise(pre titular) nations during the time. Unemployment rate peaked(p) at 24.9% that many spate lost their jobs and decided to give up on their lives.1 Even inflation rates sharply fluctuated which make investors to weave that whether they should invest or not. The Great Depression affected many nations nigh the world, including the U.S, and put these nations into disastrous land sites. In this paper, there are two sections. First, I go forth talk approxim ately how the Great Depression started and came to hit the U.S. Also, I will be discourseing ab come out some impressions the depression brought to the U.S. Lastly, I will talk about how the U.S economy was recovered and the process backside it.Falling EconomyIt is hard to point out where it exactly started from, notwithstanding most countries started to face the depression at the aforesaid(pre noun phrase) time.2 Before we discuss about the Great Depression, lets look at the industrial output of several countries. Before the depression started, many nations reached their peaks of production. During the time, the five major(ip) industrialise countries, the get together States, Canada, Germany, Japan, and the get together Kingdom, were highly innovative, competitive, and sizeable-investing nations. Among 22 industrialized nations, the fall in States was not hit by the Great Depression until first 12 countries were tied to the depression.3Most nations that are part of the League of races were affected by the depression in similar ways, save the U.S did not responded in the same way. Among these variations, how the united States faced immediate severity of the Great Depression in ways that sharp moderate in American output is more important.4 The first year for most countries was only a common ruffianly year that they faced the average adjust in production moreover over 9 percent, which was not considered that severe. Compared to these countries, the U.S faced a huge deny in industrial production, 21 percent in the first year. This fact makes the Great Depression was considered great in the U.S earlier than other nations.5In more depth about the decline in output, the initial egest in production was more focused on consumer dangerouss, while enthronization goods re main(prenominal)ed relatively the same unlike other countries.6 However, as this depression move a few years, most countries were experiencing a greater depression than before . Among these countries, however, the United States was an apparent loser that from the peak to fall in industrial production of 62 percent, which is a significant number. There was no country that experient the same magnitude of the decline.7 no, lets talk about the causes of the American depression. Simply, between 1929 and 1933, there were chains of shocks caused the United States conglomeration demand to decline repeatedly, which caused the economy down.8 Specifically, the U.S. economy was apparently experiencing downturn in the summer of 1929. However, in the beginning, this downturn was at s let loose pace. nary(prenominal) surprisingly, the source of this downturn was modify of Federal Reserve insurance policy, which Fed started assailable market sales of securities in January 1928. 9 Unfortunately, Fed fai direct to decrease in the money supply because banks sought this as opportunities that they significantly accessiond their borrowing at the discount window.10 Both titular and truly take rates dramatically improverd referable to the interplay of the open market sales and the increased demand for money and brokers bestows caused by the business market boom.11Whenever there is rise in by-line rates, it is assumable that the country will face some kind of negative situations because this rise would make people to spare more than investment, which creates imbalance between savings and investments. And this monetary policy that causes this significant rise in arouse rates was mostly due to the old-hat market according to Hamilton.12 And the situation deteriorated in October 1929 as the line of work market crashed. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York bought significant amounts of judicature bonds, thus increasing the production line of high-powered money, which do both nominal and hearty pursuance rates fall sharply, but was not good enough to hold the depression back. And even bank panics followed up and the real busy rates became consistently high. 13Another feature of the depression is the develop in domestic breathing in flattening which followed the stock market crash. As mentioned earlier, consumer spending played a significant role in the decline of output. 14 The main source of this drop in consumption was the crash market itself. The stock market crash and frequent fluctuations in stock prices created large amount of uncertainties about future income. The fluctuations of stock prices did not always made consumers and investors pessimistic about future, but just uncertain.15 Also, this uncertainty was fostered by forecasts made by analysts of the time that they expressed tremendous uncertainty about their assumptions of the future.16 And yes, it did instanter cut consumers and investors spending on irreversible goods and they simply waited for future information. Fortunately, sellers of intrinsic goods, grocery stores for example go through rise in their profits, since everyone was restraining t hemselves from wasting their income. Also, the effect of uncertainty also decreased consumer spending by decreasing wealthiness and by shifting households balance sheets to ward illiquidity.17Lastly, lets talk about last feature that deteriorated the depression. Doubtlessly, last source of the continuous decline in production was a series of banking panics.18 Several panics occurred in sequences that one pother of panics followed by another and so on. In the process, more than 9000 banks were inevitably labored to suspend their opeproportionns and depositors and stockholders lost roughly $2.5 billion.19 In detail, these banking failures came in many ways. First, the money supply was directly impacted by the bank failures. The ratio of deposits to currency fell significantly because the safety of banks misgave depositors which made them not to save their money to banks. 20 This lack of deposits to the banks sharply reduced the money multiplier and the situation got worse as the Fe d has done nothing to increase the stock of high-powered money, which could reduce the effects of this shock in money supply. Also, the financial panics interrupted the intermediation role of banks. As the bank failures prevented these banks to help out small businesses that cannot issue stocks or bonds, it became more expensive for other banks to loan to customers from the failed banks, because it required large amounts of transaction costs, which worsened the depression. 21Recovery from the Great DepressionThere were many factors that deteriorated the depression and it seems unrecoverable. Then what possibly can desexualise the economy of the United States? There could been many resolvents, but one solution at the time was stimulus to centre demand, large portion of it was in the form of monetary expansion.22 Before the monetary expansion, there have been many fiscal policies involved to fix the situation, but they were mostly ineffective. The fact that aggregate demand stimul us rattling brought the recovery was largely caused by demand-induced changes in the money multiplier, which make people to spend their money instead of just keeping it under their bed.23Then how did this monetary expansion really took attribute? The main source of this increase in the money supply of the United States was a large amount of gold inflow began in 1933.24 The nimble rate of the promoteth was a consequence of gold inflow produced by the revaluation of gold plus the flight of capital to the United States. It was in no way a consequence of the contemporaneous business expansion.25 This increase in gold inflow and revaluation made people to spend more dollars on gold in exchange of risk of retention dollars.Another source of the immense movement of cash in hand to the United States was the extravagant deterioration in the transnational political situation.26 European citizens largely transferred their funds to the United States due to the increasing threat of a Eu ropean war which created misgiving of seizure or destruction of wealth by the enemy.27 legion(predicate) economists concluded that Munich and the outbreak of war in Europe were the main factors determine the U.S. money stock, as Hitler and the gold miners had been.28 It is ironic that other countries economic collapses helped the U.S. to rebuild its economy.To make the argument that monetary expansion was the source of the recovery more plausible, lets look at the transmission mechanism. It is widely recognised that the increase in money supply will decrease the interest rates. First, nominal interest rates fall as the money stock increases. With fixed or rising expected inflation, the fall in nominal interest rates implies a fall in real interest rates. This drop in rates will foster people to deprave more of equipment and long-lived consumer goods because cost of borrowing decreased as interest rates dropped.29During the depression, rise in wages and prices were not fully moo n curser by the fast monetary expansion. If money supply did not grow as fast as the rise in wages and prices, real balances would not have improved and there would have been no top executive on nominal interest rates, which possibly could restrain the restoration. But in fact the money supply did grow at very rapid rate that the prices and wages did not completely amend to the very rapid rates of money growth. This made the real balances to increase while the nominal interest rates fall during the recovery process. Even with these very low nominal interest rates, the economy was not fully recovered yet, but there was no other way to overcompensate the monetary expansion. So, the main way to continue the monetary expansion was to encourage the economy by generating potentials of inflation and thus triggering a reduction in real interest rates. However, consumers and investors believed in the stickiness of price which made them to think that prices would rise ultimately and acco rdingly expected inflation over the not too distant horizon.30In order for monetary expansions to stimulate the economy, not only the real interest rates had to decrease, but there had to be positive respond in investment and other types of interest-sensitive spending. 31 In fact, the economy responded as expected that there have been sharp increase in fixed investment and the consumption of durable goods. Over the next few years, the spending grew very quickly as the real interest rates stayed negative. Although the economy still experienced fluctuations that real interest rates turned significantly positive which stop the growth of the economy by restraining the consumption and investment. However, overall the economy was purpose its way back to the peak again at very fast rate that spending remained consistently high enough to stimulate the growth. ratiocinationThe Great Depression occurred in 1929 around the world indeed led the time into a chaos. Although the Great Depressio n occurred simultaneously in the industrialized countries, the U.S. depression was quite unique in several ways. Compare to other nations, the U.S. experienced much more severe declines. nonecountry experienced similar magnitude of depression as the U.S. did. Also, the United States depression was started by a decline in consumption in durable goods due, increase bank failures, and sharp rise in interest rates. Since the Great Depression was a worldwide problem so it can be considered international shocks, but it also can be considered as national aggregate demand shocks, only in American perspective, because it had many uniquely American roots. There were many shocks that were internationally dealt, but it was ultimately the U.S. shocks and the U.S. policy choices that dictated the path of the America. 32Throughout the depression, the U.S. government tried many things to solve the situation. Yes, in fact the monetary expansion was the important key to the restoration of the Unite d States economy from the depression. On the other hand, fiscal policy did not really help anything during the process and remained ineffective until 1942. Since, many international elements also contributed to the U.S. depression, there had to be some international elements to get through the situation. In fact, orbit War II helped the U.S. economy from further deterioration by many Europeans transfer their funds to the U.S. in order to avoid the risk of losing them by the war. Also, the large amount of gold inflow helped the U.S. expansionary monetary developments to be happy in decreasing both nominal and real interest rates, which touch on the economy and people to spend their money on consumption of durable goods and investments. Also, the very low interest rates helped this positive atmosphere to continue furthermore and in fact the U.S. economy successfully recovered from the depression. 33Although the Great Depression was successfully overcome, it is still doubtful that o ther depressions can be handled in the same way. Future research and more data is compulsory to confirm and confidently conclude that the actions took during the Great Depression was the most economic and effective options.ReferencesThe commonwealth in Depression.Christina D. 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