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🎩💥 Ah, the 1929 crash—where rich folks went from champagne showers to penny-savers faster than you can say "stock market bubble." According to Weisberg, it was a financial apocalypse that turned Wall Street into a slapstick comedy of errors, featuring more facepalms than an amateur improv night. 📉✨
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/03/26/tick-tick-boom-1929-andrew-ross-sorkin/ #stockmarketbubble #financialcrisis #WallStreet #comedyoferrors #1929crash #economicapocalypse #HackerNews #ngated
Tick, Tick…Boom!

Andrew Ross Sorkin’s history of the 1929 stock market crash reminds us that financial bubbles are inevitable—and that another one may be about to pop.

The New York Review of Books
OnigiriNov 4

The year was 1929, when the US stock market crashed hard and the Roaring Twenties came to a screeching halt.

Perhaps no song out there captures the essence of financial and social loss more than the gritty, soulful version of “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out,” recorded by the massively influential Bessie Smith, the ‘Empress of the Blues.’

I can’t tell you how much I love her voice. There’s no way for me to measure it. A true master!

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e3AwfORXYpQ

Bessie Smith - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out (1929)

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