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The Crash Of 29'

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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