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Interesting book about the stock market crash of 1929 in the United States. Details described as inflated bubble, the chronology of the process participants. I personally found it very interesting to read, because I imagined this event more ambitious and more tragic consequences for its members. Galbraith in the book and tells the story much exaggerated, dramatized and distorted. In general, the one to blame everything that moves man - greed, fear, stupidity, excessive emotionality in deciding. This book will be of interest to those interested in the securities market, the economy. The only negative of the book, very few findings of fact by the author, mostly description of the process as such analysis flight virtually none. But Galbraith

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