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27 Sep, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Fascinating visualization of US economic growth from 1900-1925.

Love telephone “subscribers”.

Taken from a 1925 “Magazine of Wall Street” issue I ordered!
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🚨New Project!🚨

Thrilled to announce a new financial history project with @chapter_HQ . An exciting new way to learn market history as a community.

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What I find interesting is that while technology usually solves this "what sucks" problem...

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