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Bucket Shops: The Original Financial Grift - Ep. 14
15:30
Key Takeaways
You can take the speculator out of the bucket shop, but you can’t take the bucket shop out of the speculator.
* The original “bucket shop” was literal sludge as Lex and Bianca trace the term from 19th‑century England’s beer dregs to America’s first mass‑market speculation boom.
* Technology created the first retail trading frenzy with Edison’s quadruplex telegraph and the stock…