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During the Great Depression, there was overproduction of goods from the factories. Due to the Stock Market crashing, people began to cut back on what they were buying to save their money. Soon after this, the factories starting exporting less. However, there was still too much product out for the people to consume, so there was an underconsumption of goods, and the factories started losing money because no one would buy the products.

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There was less consumer spending because everyone lost the money they had to spend with to buy goods.

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