Ocupation: Economist
Life: October 15, 1908 - April 29, 2006
Birthday: October 15
Death: April 29
In the early days of the crash it was widely believed that Jesse L. Livermore, a Bostonian with a large and unquestionably exaggerated reputation for bear operations, leading a syndicate that was driving the market down.
source: "The Great Crash, 1929". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter VIII, "Aftermath I," Section III, p. 141, 1954.
topic: Bears, Reputation, Driving, Bostonians, Syndicate