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John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes: There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.
         

There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.


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