"A mighty bubble of wealth is blown before our eyes, as empty, as transient, as contradictory to the laws of solid material, as confuted by every circumstance of actual condition, as any other bubble which man or child ever blew before."
One book that I believe should be required reading of all finance students is Devil Take The Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation By Edward Chancellor. The book chronicles stock market speculation from the 17th century to the present. In studying financial history, one comes away with the notion that while the history of