When the market collapsed people began to sell there stock as fast as they could. Because the stock was so low people threw themselves off building because they didn't want to have to deal with having no money as the depression began.
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The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy. - Milton Friedman
Question
What would have happened if the stock market didn't crash as fast as it did but rather slowly fell?