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The Top Takeaways From 300 Years of Investment Advice

Merryn Talks Money

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The Appeal of the Stock Market in the 19th Century

Most people weren't actually invested in the stock market so it was a form of fantasy football for them yeah well I'm looking at it's been a bit the guys encourage investors of modest means to think of themselves as heroically seeing through the smokesgreens put up by stock market professionals. Half the investors by this time were women but the appeal is very much in terms of you need to be a risk-taking heroic loan manly trader who doesn't give in to kind of feminine impulses of of weakness sometimes we like to.

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