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What effect did the use of credit have on the economy in the 1920s?

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It made it weaker

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The main effect that the use of credit had on the economy in the 1920s is that it allowed people to make poor and risky investment decisions that led to a great amount of over-valuation of stocks. This led to the Great Crash in 1929.
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