Banks would invest their patron’s funds in the stock market as they thought that they would increase the amount of money they had in their accounts through interest, and they could get some more money for the bank. These investing practices were not sustainable as the crash began. and during the crash “the roof caved in and the truth came out” many people learned of these unsustainable banking practices. Before the many patrons of these banks were middle and lower class so they weren’t “livin’ so large” and they needed the money so when the crash began many people engaged in Bank runs to withdraw all of their money from these banks but the banks didn’t have the funds on property to close all of the accounts of the patrons and pay them the money they demanded; so many Banks closed increasing the widespread hysteria based on the belif that banks were stealing their money.