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Molloy by Beckett

Never was America as close to the fire of the Great Depression than on the 11 of

february when 2 planes were flown into the World Trade Center, with hundreds of

passengers on board, by terrorists. They striked at the most sensitive part of the „money

maker” America where thousands of business were done every single day.

America was shocked and the disaster pushed it’s economy into recession, which she has not

experienced since 1929.

When in October of 1929 the Wall Street stock market collapsed after steady

declines in production, prices and incomes over three previous months, which forced the

speculators to revise their expectations. Anxiety soon gave place to panic which led to the

crash. However the depression affected the differnt industrialized countries in various ways

and degrees of intensity.

The situaion is strikingly similar to the triggering event of the Great Depression.

So I think that some unsetlling par...

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