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The Bowery Boys: New York City History

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The Scriptomania of New York

Doer himself formed the first American securities pool by getting a bunch of different investors together. He left that position, but he certainly had connections and insider information. This sounds like we're entering a territory that may not be quite so ethical for an assistant of the treasury to be getting involved in. Right. So there was a script actually scriptomania. You get a T in the mania. Okay. There was scriptomania, scriptophobia, and scriponomy. Well, these are various different kinds of script related afflictions that run as a financial advisor could get up. And this was scriptomanic that was just taking New York by storm.

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