The Great Depression

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Across
  1. 3. purchasing stock by paying only for a percentage and borrowing the rest in hopes that the value of the stocks will continue to increase
  2. 5. an effect of buying too much on credit
  3. 8. when individuals take all their money out of the bank in a panic
  4. 9. the total value of goods and services produced by a country in a given year
  5. 12. regular swings or the ups and downs of an economy
  6. 13. a mild economic downturn
Down
  1. 1. the percent of workers who are actively looking for, but cant get a job
  2. 2. when the government spends more money than it receives in taxes
  3. 4. a place where stocks and bonds are sold
  4. 6. an unrealistic or unfounded rise in economic values
  5. 7. a major downturn typically characterized by high unemployment, reduction in credit and consumer confidence and bank and business failures
  6. 10. a payment by the government to an industry to enable them to sell their products lower than the cost it takes to produce the product
  7. 11. 100 million acres of farmland that were too dry to farm