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The Stock Market Crash of 1929 – Part 2: Age of Illusion

Conflicted: A History Podcast

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The Economist's Prediction of a Stock Market Crash

roger babson had been predicting a crash. Every year he was wrong. Jesse knew that even broken clocks were right twice a day. On the day of the babson break, jesse made 20 million dollars by strategically shorting vulnerable stocks. A few carefully chosen words and the herd would leap straight off a cliff.

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