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Uncovering the bezzle

In his book on the 1929 stockmarket crash, economist John Kenneth Galbraith talked about the “bezzle” – the inventory of as-yet-undiscovered fraud which gave the false impression that everyone was wealthier than they really were before the crash wiped out those illusions. Warren

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