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What is the 1934 Securities Exchange Act? The 1934 Securities Exchange Act brought about the SEC, or the Securities Exchange Commission. This act, and the SEC, monitor and govern all realms of the financial world to ensure fair practice by all parties involved.

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Finance a la shmoop what is the 1934 Securities and Exchange Act? okay if

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you're going to exchange securities like trade stocks and bonds among yourselves [Stocks and bond exchange between man and woman]

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well then there have to be rules right yeah you'd think well there didn't used

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to be and then aunt 1934 came along and well she set the table the key element [Aunt setting dinner table]

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that 34 Act created was the SEC itself it's not a football conference near

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Florida it was a wise creation because it recognized that well whatever the

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world looked like in 1934 it was highly likely that 50 years later it would look

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a whole lot different and while horses and buggies went away [Horse and carriage disappears]

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while that wasn't the case for stocks and bonds and keep in mind that another

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Act was created a year earlier cleverly named yes the Securities Act of 1933

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while that act focused on primary shares that is original shares like the kind

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sold in an IPO well the 1934 Act was all about shares

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traded after that initial set it's called the secondary market where

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secondary shares are traded not primary ones well this new law made the New York [Group of people dealing in stock market]

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Stock Exchange a big deal with big powers and made insider trading illegal

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and believe it or not it really wasn't illegal back then and it you know thus

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paved the way for many exciting Wall Street movies where greed is sometimes

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good and sometimes not [List of Wall Street movies]

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