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  • Stock Market Returns From The Crashes Of The 1920s

    There are three or four great stock market crashes that instantly stick out: The Wall Street Crash of 1929; Black Monday in 1987; the bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2000; and, of course, the most recent stock market crash in 2007/2008. I’d add a fourth to that list, which is the early-1920s depression. It…

  • The Coca-Cola Millionaires Of Quincy, Florida

    Type Quincy, Florida into your search engine. The first page that pops up will likely be the standard Wikipedia entry that many towns across the developed world now have. When you run through it, Quincy probably won’t strike you as a particularly special town. It looks nice enough, but with a population of just under…

  • The Compounding World Of Millionaire Investors

    I recently came across an old article from 2014 about the case of Margaret Dickson. Margaret, who passed away at the age of 72 with a £1m ($1.42m) estate, was one of the UK’s secret millionaire investors. That might not sound particularly spectacular on its own, but what made this case so special was that Margaret…

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