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The canal that shaped American finance

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The trader who made $100mn from the 1929 crash — only to lose it all

Jesse Livermore was a legendary trader who made and lost several fortunes in the early 20th century, most famously by shorting the Wall Street crash of 1929. His early life was immortalised in the roman à clef Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefèvre, and his trading in ...  Show more

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