If you want to read the full text of this source, it is on Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24518 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24518). (Bo

If you want to read the full text of this source, it is on Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24518 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24518). (Books link just because I could not get that specific page otherwise, sorry.) I just finished reading this book. It is still very readable and relevant today despite being written in 1840. We still have bubbles and crashes from speculation, we still have quacks and charlatans. About the only section that did not have a modern parallel was the alchemy chapter, thank goodness. My favorite part was how the courts got out of dealing with people trying to claim losses after the crash. I won't spoil it here though, you'll just have to read it yourself.