Which of the following statements BEST explains the origins of the Great Depression?
A) International bankers carefully planned the Great Depression in order to buy devalued and cheap stocks to make a profit from later.
B) Government bureaucrats tinkering with the free-market system systematically unbalanced capitalism and caused it to wreck.
C) Overproduction of goods, banking failures, and a runaway stock market created a perfect storm.
D) The stock market itself, and the way that people could buy stocks on the margin, was the single cause of the crash that led to the Depression.
Answer: C
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