A problem for people who bought stock on credit during the 1920s was that if the stock market collapsed, they

Buying stock on credit meant borrowing money, often through a margin purchase. If stock prices collapsed, the shares could lose much of their value while the buyer still owed the borrowed money. The debt could then be greater than what the buyer could afford to repay, so the correct choice is “would owe more than they could repay.”

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