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Andrew Ross Sorkin: What the Crash of 1929 Says About Today
1 hour 9 minutes Posted Nov 6, 2025 at 10:00 am.
) Life before the crash
) How Americans developed a taste for leverage
) What happened on Black Thursday
) Why so few people saw the crash coming
) Could the crash have been averted?
) Andrew’s fascination with money
) What if financial bubbles are a feature, not a bug?
) Could we be headed for another 1929?
) The dangers of leverage
) How the blockchain will revolutionzie finance
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Andrew Ross Sorkin’s new book, 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation, is an eye-opening account of the forces that led to the worst financial crisis in history and the lessons that disaster can teach us about today’s economy.
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