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What made Americans so willing to engage in stock market speculation in the 1920s?

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''Roaring" economy of the 20s meant that investors could make wildly high returns on their investment in relatively small amounts of time, especially since there was practically no government regulation of investment under the Great Depression, which began with the crash of 1929.
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A.) People were in an optimistic mood, and they were willing to take a risk.

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