History of Money Series: The Bank Holiday of 1933 - The Week America Closed Every Bank

Podcast: Creating Richer Lives · Karl Eggerss

Opublikowano: 2026-08-15

Imagine waking up tomorrow and every bank in America is closed. Not just yours. All of them. No withdrawals, no cash, no way to make payroll. And nobody can tell you when it ends. That happened. In March of 1933, every bank in the country was shut down for about a week. And when they reopened, Americans lined up not to pull their money out, but to put it back in. In this episode of the History of Money series, Karl Eggerss explains what was actually breaking. Why the banks, not the 1929 crash, are what made...