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Market historian exploring how price action, narrative, and psychology shape markets and economies. Deep dives rooted in historical research and behavioral insight.
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Erie Railway and the Birth of the Modern Stock Market (opens the original)
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For most of the market’s first 75 years, stocks were not reliable buy-and-hold vehicles for compounding wealth. The market was thin, volatile, and riddled with fraud, manipulation, mismanagement, and unstable financing.Even the closest thing to a blue-chip stock could not be trusted to appreciate steadily for decades. Prices surged on gold inflows, strong crop harvests, rising freight demand, or speculative excitement, then collapsed just as quickly.Thanks for r
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