The myth of stockbrokers jumping from Wall Street windows
The dramatic imagery of ruined bankers raining from Wall Street skyscrapers during the Great Crash is mostly Hollywood fiction. While a few tragic suicides did happen, the actual suicide rate barely spiked in October 1929. Most ruined stockbrokers just quietly walked out the front door and moved into their parents' basements like modern crypto investors.

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