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Buying on margin

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Curtis Strite

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3y ago
Updated: 1/20/2022

Buying on margin was the act of buying stock for just 10% of the price promising to later pay the rest of it. On top of that, investors often times borrowed money to pay this small percentage. This was a leading contributor to the Great Depression.

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Curtis Strite

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