Here is a song from February 9, 1930 by George Olsen,
                                                                             called "I'm In The Market For You"
                                                                                                   Play It.
                                                                  (Source:    http://www.btinternet.com/~dreklind/thecrash.htm)

                                                                                   I'll have to see my broker
                                                                                   Find out what he can do.
                                                                                   'Cause I'm in the market for you.

                                                                                  There won't be any joker,
                                                                                  With margin I'm all through.
                                                                                  'Cause I want you outright it's true.

                                                                                  You're going up, up ,up in my estimation.
                                                                                  I want a thousand shares of your caresses too.

                                                                                  We'll count the hugs and kisses,
                                                                                  When dividends are due,
                                                                                  'Cause I'm in the market for you.
 
   Could A Crash and A Depression like 1929-1933 Happen Again in the US?  Yes!

          Absolutely.  Though you won't see this said very often by orthodox economists or
   politicians.  Keep in mind that the US Government is now much deeper in debt and the US
   has a far worse balance of payments problem than it did in 1929.  True, margin requirements
   for stocks are 50%, not 10%.  But the volume in index related derivatives is enormous and they are
   now factored to double the underlying index's volatility.

        The bursting of the vastly over-extended housing bubble certainly could be the trigger now. 
  Under-consumption was a cause for the 1929 Crash and Depression. Thus, we have to be
  concerned about the extent to which middle-class Americans have exhausted their credit now. 
  And we must also admit the bearishness inherent in the severe maldistribution of wealth in
  America now, where the top one percent own more than the bottom 95%. 



          The world bull market has gone largely up, uncorrected since 2003.  A severe world-wide
   equities' decline from a lofty, wildly over-bought condition would savage the buying power
   of many, many businesses and consumers around the globe.  Illegal insider selling has been
   very pronounced.  There will be another round of class-action lawsuits against CEOs
   for dumping their shares on the basis of inside information not yet released to the general public.
   This will hurt investor confidence significantly, just as it did in 2001-2002. 

         The US Federal Reserve Board has, except for brief periods, always been much more
   interested in finding ways to finance the US federal deficit than guarantee reasonable 
   levels of employment.  So,  I would expect them to be very slow to lower interest rates.  
   A "run" on the dollar or a severe oil shortage will make their job much harder.  Too many
   mainstream economists are of the Chicago monetarist school.  As a result, they will keep
   pushing  monetary solutions when more basic problems, like the 2 billion dollar Iraq blunder.
   the exporting of jobs and maldistribution of wealth go unaddressed.  The quick fixes
   Bush and Congress develop will not rescue the sinking economy.  They will be too little
   and too late.  Their failure will underline the crisis of confidnce, but not solve it.  Orders
   will be delayed, making matters worse.

           When Congress tries finally to protect American jobs with tariffs, we will be going back to
   the economic nationalism of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930.  Moreover, note how the
   Democrats have now abandoned Keynesian fiscal  policies as they promise to balance the
   federal budget in order to besmirch Republicans for the massive budget deficits of the Bush years.
   And if the Democrats cut military spending and troops in Iraq, the multiplier effect will be
   working in reverse, as thousands of soldiers become civilians again.

            Many unorthodox economists correctly have pointed out that each US recession
   since 1948 has been deeper and required larger and larger deficit governmental spending to
   end the recession.   The US deficits are now so large, it is not clear how, other than printing
   billions and billions more paper money, any Keynesian public work program could be
   funded.  

           Moreover, I doubt if there is another deep turn-downwards in the US economy,  that we
   can we really expect the Japanese and Chinese, who have already financed so much of the US
   debt, to allow  the US to deliberately further unbalance the budget to the extent necessary to
   jump-start a US economic recovery?  Lastly, civil unrest would be highly likely, as the difference
   between the haves and the have nots in the US  is now back to levels not seen since the 1920s.
   That would send even more US capital overseas.   

 

         George Bush let 9/11 happen, he let New Orleans be destroyed, he has destroyed
  Iraq for millions and millions who have no electricity, no clean water, no jobs and no schools. 
He has wasted a trillion dollars (when all the bills come in). Think how much good that would
have done spent on American infrastructire and education.  Bush is hopelessly stubborn and even more
  arrogant. His buddies are looters.  He is just the man to make a bad situation even worse!  
  Where will Americans go? Four million Iraqui have left Iraq. 

                       http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/30/2860/