The Great Depression was caused by much more than Black Tuesday, the day the stock market crashed. From what I understand, the biggest thing that caused the depression was the loss of confidence in the banking system. There was a run on the banks, destroying their financial base, which in turn forced them to liquify assets. That had the net result of turning what had been good investments into bad, putting the banks in worse conditions.

There are a number of very serious differences between the economy of the 1920s and the economy today. I could talk about a lot of different things that fall into this, but the main point is that the government is meddling in the economy much more today, than they were back then. Giving Congress the benefit of the doubt, that meddling has largely been done with the intent of making things better; but Congress seems incapable of learning the lesson that there are always unintended consequences to their actions. Some of those actions include:

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