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In 1929 an investor called Will Payne stated that it was so easy to make money on the Wall Street Stock Exchange that it was no longer a gamble. A gamble is when someone loses and someone gains, here everybody was winning. In an article titled Everybody Ought to be Rich, John Jaskob the author proposed a get rich scheme by saying that if $15 per month is invested in stocks then this money can be converted to $80,000 over a period of 20 years. In 1928 President Coolidge said, "No Congress of the US ever assembled on surveying the state of the Union, has met with a more pleasing prospect than that which appears at the present time. In the domestic field there is tranquility and contentment......and the highest record of years of prosperity.� Just before the 1929 stock market collapse a journalist asked a speculator about the profitability of investing in the stock market. The speculator replied, "One investor buys General Motors at $100"(he meant a GM share) "sells to another at......

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