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Why did so many people invest in the stock market in the 1920s?

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They could buy stocks "on the margin", so the needed less initial capital.
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People invested so much in the stock market because the stocks were cheap and easily accessible. Investing in wall street seemed like a sure thing and an extremely easy way to make money at that time.
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