27. Your Family Lost All the Savings
When Wall Street crashed on October 29, 1929, the stock market lost $14 billion in just one day. Over that week, it lost a total of $30 billion. Millions of people lost all of their life savings and literally overnight went from wealth and prosperity to abject poverty. The Great Depression affected everyone; that is, rich people became poor, and those not-so-wealthy equally lost what little they did have left.
